Admin l Saturday, July 03, 2021
LAGOS, Nigeria – The Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Police Force(NPF) has denied firing live bullets during the rally of Yoruba Nation in Ojota, Lagos.
In a statement signed by Public Relations Officer of the Lagos Police Command, Mr. Olumuyiwa Adejobi said the police was not involved in the killing of the 14 year old drink seller as alleged in the media.
He described attempt to link the police with the death of the girl as a calculated attempt to create confusion and fear in the good people of Lagos State. He said the policemen deployed during the protest did not fire a single bullet at the scene and therefore there was no way a live bullet could have hit any girl at the scene of the rally.
He said the corpse of the girl was found wrapped and abandoned at a distance far from Ojota venue of the Ojota rally, behind MRS filling station, inward Maryland with dried blood stain, suggesting that the blood is not fresh.
“After a close look at the corpse, a wound suspectedly sustained from a sharp object was seen on it”, he said in the statement and that, describing the news in circulation about police killing the girl as mischievous.