POLICEMAN KILLED AN OKADA RIDER

POLICEMAN ALLEGEDLY KILLS OKADA RIDER WITH SINGLE STRIKE OF BATON ON THE HEAD

An okada rider simply identified as Omo Saki has been killed by an unidentified policeman attached to the Pen Cinema Police Division, Agege, Lagos State. The okada rider was allegedly killed after the policeman hit him on the head with a baton on Oba Ogunnusi Road in the Ogba area. A witness who identified himself as Baba Lati, said the policeman hit the motorcyclist with the baton after he refused to stop when he was flagged down.
According to him, “It happened this morning (on Tuesday). An okada rider was stopped by a policeman but the man refused to stop. So, the policeman hit him with a baton he was holding. The man fell and died immediately.
“I don’t know why the okada man refused to stop but they have been warned not to pass through Agege, which is among the roads commercial motorcyclists were banned from plying.”
Another eyewitness, who wished to be identified as Iya Laje, accused the policemen of manhandling any errant motorcyclist accosted in the area.