Estate guard narrates how policemen shot him while enforcing okada ban

Abayomi, who’s seeking for Justice, said the policemen numbering about four all attached to the Ogombo Police Station, stormed the Lekki Peninsula Scheme II to enforce the government ban on okada operations on the estate when the incident happened.

According to Abayomi, as the policemen got to the estate gate to enforce the ban, his colleagues stopped their patrol van, during which an argument ensued between them.

The 49-year-old security guard said as he intervened to settle the matter, one of the policemen opened fire on him.

His words: “Since the ban on Okada in Lagos State, the Lekki Peninsula Scheme II registered its own motorcycles that operated within the estate.

“The motorcycles do not go out of the estate to operate. The measure was in place to ease the movement of residents in the estate. But since the ban on Okada operations in the state, the police at the Ogombo division usually come into the estate to raid motorcyclists.

“These motorcyclists have their jackets with identification numbers, so when the complaint got to us, we reported to the chairman of the estate, but it took time before he reported the case to the DPO to caution his men since the motorcyclists don’t operate outside the estate.

“So, the policemen kept coming. When their presence could no longer be tolerated, the chairman instructed us to always ask their mission and that was what caused the problem that day.

“When Friday flagged them down on July 17 and the policemen got out of the patrol vehicle to arrest him, I quickly intervened and sent a signal to my CSO, Greg. When he came, he was trying to pacify them when one of them shot my right thigh.”

Confirming the incident, Moses Kamanya, the Chairman of the estate, stated that the police in the area were fond of constituting nuisance by conducting illegal stop-and-search on dwellers of the area.