Angry youths touch police station
BY TAIWO FAROTIMI
Angry youths in Iwo town, Osun State descended on a police station in the community, setting it ablaze. Their grouse was the extra-judicial killing by the police.
This happened Friday morning following the killing of one of them, Tunde Nafiu, a student by an operative of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. The deceased was reportedly killed Thursday night by the police. A twitter user claimed that the policeman said to have been arrested already pulled the trigger because the late Nafiu would not allow him search his telephone.
While the circumstances behind the killing of Nafiu remain unclear, according to the state police commissioner , Fimihan Adeoye, what is known is that the young man was said to be returning from Olupona, a neighboring community when the SARS official accosted him.
BY Friday morning the youths matched on the police station, and sensing danger the policemen on duty took flight, while the youths pulled down the fence and burnt the structure down.
Police authority in the state confirmed that the erring police officer had been apprehended.
The Police Complaint Unit stated this in a tweet:
“Policeman involved in the shooting that led to the unfortunate death of a man at Ajangbala Eleha, Iwo yesterday has been arrested.
He is in custody & investigation ongoing. CP Osun State is meeting with relatives & community.”
The incident is happening barely three weeks after Yemi Osinbajo, then acting president ordered inspector general of police, Ibrahim Idris to overhaul SARS. The police chief had renamed the unit and also gave instruction that each operative in the unit be made to go through psychological test.