A
police corporal, Joseph Ebosele, has been confirmed dead at a Lagos hospital
after he was hit with an iron rod by a motorcyclist, Bakare Lukman, in the
Meiran area of Lagos State.
Punch learnt
that around 11pm on October 11, 2014, policemen on patrol arrested Lukman for
contravening the traffic law which prohibits the movement of commercial
motorcycles after 10pm.
It
was learnt that after seizing Lukman’s bike, the team leader of the policemen
handed it over to Ebosele to ride to the station.
Punch
learnt that a furious Lukman reportedly escaped police custody, caught up with
Ebosele and attacked him with an iron rod.
A
source told Punch's correspondent that the 35-year-old deceased and his
colleagues were responding to a distress call when the incident occurred.
He
said, “The policemen were in their station when they received a distress call.
They went there and were returning when they sighted Lukman riding the bike
around 12 midnight.
“They
queried him and when he could not give a satisfactory answer, they decided to
confiscate the motorcycle. They also arrested him, but he escaped along the
way.
“Lukman
then waylaid them. He attacked the police corporal on the head, with an iron
rod and rode away on the bike.”
He
said the other policemen noticed that their colleague was nowhere to be found
and decided to trace him.
They
were said to have met him unconscious and rushed him to the hospital where he
was confirmed dead.
The
police recovered the suspect’s cap at the scene which they used in tracing him
to the motor park.
Lukman’s
friends identified the cap as belonging to him.
Further
investigations were said to have led the police to the suspect
and
he confessed to the crime.
Lukman,
a resident of Olajumoke Street, in Obafemi Owode Local Government area of Ogun
State, told the police he had hid in the dark inside a mechanic shop from where
he monitored the movement of the police patrol van.
He
said, “After they seized the bike I went ahead of them and stayed in a mechanic
shop. It was there I saw an iron rod which I took.
“While
waiting on Meiran Road, I saw their van pass by, then I saw the policeman
riding my bike.
“I
used all my strength to hit him with the iron before fleeing with my bike.”
The
Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Keneth Nwosu, confirmed the incident.
He
added, “The bikeman is in our custody now, and
investigations are ongoing.”
Too bad for him! R.ip
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