This came as not less than 20 persons were feared dead in a pipeline inferno at Eko-Ovwore-Amukpe community in Okpe council area of Delta State. The incident which occurred near Jesse by the River Ethiope bank was reminiscent of the Atigwo-Jesse pipeline fire conflagration of October 17,1998 that left thousands of persons dead.
Vanguard learnt that the Divisional Police Officer in Badagry, Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP Saliu Samson; his Divisional Crime Officer, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, whose name could not be ascertained at press time, who were reportedly on their way to appeal for calm were shot dead.
The DPO’s orderly and driver were reported to be critically wounded during the encounter and are receiving treatment at the intensive unit of an undisclosed hospital.
Two police patrol vehicles belonging to the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, were set ablaze while their occupants were chased and shot dead. As at 2.30 p.m., yesterday, corpses of police officers littered the Iberepo roundabout while the rampaging soldiers were spotted with dangerous weapons scouting for police men.
Alleged reprisal attack
Eyewitnesses placed the number of policemen killed in an alleged reprisal attack by the soldiers at eight.
Vanguard gathered that some police men and their families residing in Ibereko barracks were chased out and seriously wounded.
Impeccable sources said trouble started, Sunday night, after a soldier in mufti who was escorting goods from the Seme border was accosted by a police officer attached to RRS who demanded to search the vehicle.
It was learnt that the unidentified soldier had challenged the policeman and threatened to disarm him if he did not allow the vehicle free way, and that this prompted the trigger- happy policeman to shoot at him at close range.
The soldier reportedly slumped and died on the spot. It was gathered that four of the policemen involved in the shooting incident were promptly arrested by police authorities while members of the OP Messa were mobilized to patrol the area to avoid possible break down of law and order.
The story took a different dimension after news of the killing of the soldier filtered into the Ibereko barracks. Some soldiers mobilized as early as 9 a.m., yesterday, and began to attack any policeman in sight contrary to a non-violence order given them by the commander of the barracks, Colonel Nabasa. Some men suspected to be soldiers allegedly stormed one of the new generation banks in Badagry where they attacked some policemen attached to the bank.
Vanguard learnt that the soldiers moved to the roads where they searched every vehicle going into and coming out of Badagry, apparently looking for policemen in uniform.
It was gathered that on learning of the attacks, the late DPO reportedly suggested to his DCO that they should meet with the Commandant of the Army Barracks for peace talks.
Vanguard gathered that they were shot dead when some soldiers saw their police van approaching the barracks. As at 3.30 pm yesterday, unconfirmed reports said some soldiers were still on rampage searching for Policemen to deal with in the area.
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