A police corporal, Joseph Ebosele, has been confirmed dead at a
Lagos hospital after he was hit with an iron rod by a motorcyclist,
Bakare Lukman, in the Meiran area of Lagos State.
PUNCH Metro learnt that around 11pm on October 11, 2014,
policemen on patrol arrested Lukman for contravening the traffic
law which prohibits the movement of commercial motorcycles after
10pm.
It was learnt that after seizing Lukman’s bike, the team leader of
the policemen handed it over to Ebosele to ride to the station.
Our correspondent learnt that a furious Lukman reportedly
escaped police custody, caught up with Ebosele and attacked him
with an iron rod.
A source told our correspondent that the 35-year-old deceased
and his colleagues were responding to a distress call when the
incident occurred.
He said, “The policemen were in their station when they received a
distress call. They went there and were returning when they
sighted Lukman riding the bike around 12 midnight.
“They queried him and when he could not give a satisfactory
answer, they decided to confiscate the motorcycle. They also
arrested him, but he escaped along the way.
“Lukman then waylaid them. He attacked the police corporal on
the head, with an iron rod and rode away on the bike.”
He said the other policemen noticed that their colleague was
nowhere to be found and decided to trace him.
They were said to have met him unconscious and rushed him to
the hospital where he was confirmed dead.
Source: punch.ng
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