CP Orders Probe Into Osun Killings

Osun State Commissioner of Police, CP Ibrahim Gotan, has ordered afloat probe into the circumstances that led to the decease of 3 persons connected Tuesday successful Akinlalu, Ife North section authorities country of Osun State.

The commissioner ordered the contiguous transportation of the lawsuit to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Osogbo, which is the apex transgression investigative assemblage wrong the authorities for a discreet and thorough investigation.

A connection by the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abiodun Ojelabi, connected Wednesday, said the probe became imperative pursuing conflicting reports of the incidence by the Western Security Network besides known arsenic Amotekun, Osun Corps and 1 Chief Oyebamiji Kamorudeen of Akinlalu.

Kamorudeen alleged that the information outfit invaded Akinlalu assemblage with their 2 authoritative patrol and 1 backstage conveyance successful retaliation for the 2 pump enactment guns earlier allegedly snatched from their operatives by yet-to-be-identified persons.

He added that during the invasion, members of Amotekun Corps changeable sporadically and caused the decease of 3 persons portion scores others sustained superior slug injuries adding that they took distant the remains of the deceased persons.

The Akinlalu main named Adeagbo Kadijat ‘f’ 22yrs, Oke-Ila Oyebamiji ‘f’ 60yrs and Fayomi Toheeb ‘m’ 19yrs among radical injured during the shooting portion Ibrahim Oyebamiji (m), 26yrs, Sefiu Oyebamiji (m) and Abiola Olutayo (m) mislaid their lives.

However, successful a merchandise by Amotekun connected Tuesday, the corps claimed that its operatives were archetypal ambushed by equipped hoodlums portion responding to a distress telephone from Akinlalu residents.

The Corps reported that during the ambush, 2 work rifles were snatched.

Amotekun further stated that reinforcement operatives dispatched to the country came nether dense gunfire astatine a barricaded junction into Akinlalu, resulting successful a fierce speech of occurrence lasting implicit an hour.

According to their account, 3 suspected attackers mislaid their lives, arrests were made, and the stolen firearms were recovered from a hideout.

The Police Command said, “All claims and counterclaims — including allegations of murder, battle occasioning harm, weapon snatching, wounding, and impersonation — volition beryllium cautiously verified to found facts and guarantee justice”.

The Command, however, urged residents of Akinlalu and the nationalist to stay calm and law-abiding, adding that tactical teams person been reinforced successful the country to support bid and forestall breakdown of instrumentality and order.