How policeman shot my mother to death —9-yr-old narrates
The killer cop and members of his team have since been arrested on
the order of the visibly angry Commissioner of Police , with the Isheri
Oshun Divisional Police Officer queried.
28 year-old Aremu was arraigned before an Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrate’s court yesterday on a two count charge of murder and causing grievous body harm.
The prosecutor Godwin Osuyi, told the court that Aremu allegedly killed late Comfort (Idongesit) Godwin Ekpo and also wounded her husband, Godwin Sunday Ekpo , with his official rifle, AK 47, at Ijegun area of the state, at about 8pm.Osuyi, said that Aremu unlawfully shot the deceased dead , an offence he said was punishable under sections 221 and 243 of the Criminal laws of Lagos state of Nigeria, 2011.
Aremu’s plea was not taken, as the prosecutor applied that he be remanded in prison custody pending the legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP.
Consequently, Magistrate Afolashade Botoku ordered that the defendant should be remanded in prison custody for the next 30 days, with the matter adjourned till October 19, 2015.
However, in defence , Aremu stated that he never meant to kill the woman, denying that he also demanded money from his victims.
He said, “We were stationed at Obalagbe when we saw the keke Marwa coming at about 12 midnight which was against the stipulated time for them to operate. When we stopped him, he refused. Rather, he hit our vehicle, in an attempt to escape. All I did was to aim at the tyres of the keke marwa . Unfortunately the bullet hit the woman from behind and also hit the man in the jaw. I never meant to kill anybody. It was just a mistake. If he had not run, I would not have fired”, he said.
But Crime Guard gathered that the vehicle the policemen stationed at the spot was properly labelled, an outright disregard to the Inspector General of Police directive that policemen should not use any vehicle that is has no inscription of the Police on it . Some of the policemen were also said to have been in mufti.
28 year-old Aremu was arraigned before an Ebute-Metta Chief Magistrate’s court yesterday on a two count charge of murder and causing grievous body harm.
The prosecutor Godwin Osuyi, told the court that Aremu allegedly killed late Comfort (Idongesit) Godwin Ekpo and also wounded her husband, Godwin Sunday Ekpo , with his official rifle, AK 47, at Ijegun area of the state, at about 8pm.Osuyi, said that Aremu unlawfully shot the deceased dead , an offence he said was punishable under sections 221 and 243 of the Criminal laws of Lagos state of Nigeria, 2011.
Aremu’s plea was not taken, as the prosecutor applied that he be remanded in prison custody pending the legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecution, DPP.
Consequently, Magistrate Afolashade Botoku ordered that the defendant should be remanded in prison custody for the next 30 days, with the matter adjourned till October 19, 2015.
However, in defence , Aremu stated that he never meant to kill the woman, denying that he also demanded money from his victims.
He said, “We were stationed at Obalagbe when we saw the keke Marwa coming at about 12 midnight which was against the stipulated time for them to operate. When we stopped him, he refused. Rather, he hit our vehicle, in an attempt to escape. All I did was to aim at the tyres of the keke marwa . Unfortunately the bullet hit the woman from behind and also hit the man in the jaw. I never meant to kill anybody. It was just a mistake. If he had not run, I would not have fired”, he said.
But Crime Guard gathered that the vehicle the policemen stationed at the spot was properly labelled, an outright disregard to the Inspector General of Police directive that policemen should not use any vehicle that is has no inscription of the Police on it . Some of the policemen were also said to have been in mufti.
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