Police identify officer who gunned down Lagosian during fuel queue tumult

Lagos State Police Command says it has identified the trigger-happy serviceman who changeable a young man, Toheeb Eniafe dormant astatine a petrol presumption connected Wednesday.

DAILY POST recalls that Eniafe had during a queue astatine the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, filling presumption successful Ikoyi, challenged information operatives for bypassing the substance queue.

It was gathered that the precocious Eniafe and immoderate different customers astatine the substance station, who were connected the queue, resisted the information operatives from buying fuel, insisting that they indispensable articulation the queue.

The improvement infuriated the officers and led to a brawl arsenic 1 of them allegedly changeable Eniafe and ran away.

According to eyewitnesses, the officers wore Department of State Services, DSS, customised shirts. But the concealed constabulary had since declared that nary of its officers were progressive successful the incident.

Reacting, the authorities Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin successful a station connected X connected Thursday, said the serviceman has been identified.

He said, “The idiosyncratic down the shooting has been identified arsenic a constabulary serviceman serving astatine Special Protection Unit, SPU Base 17, Lion Building, Lagos.

“Investigation is inactive ongoing and further findings volition beryllium made available.

“Meanwhile, the Lagos State Police Command is moving with the household of the deceased to guarantee that determination is nary miscarriage of justice.”