The Ojo Military Cantonment soldiers beat a police officer in Lagos, identified as Inspector Monday Orube, to death on Wednesday, August 3, after an argument over rights of way.
The soldiers, who were reportedly over thirty in number, were said to have taken two traffic warden policemen hostage and taken them to their barracks, with the third officer escaping kidnapping.
According to a source, the three police officers who were on duty at the time of the incident blocked the lane through which the Soldiers were traveling in a Coastal bus to let other drivers pass without realizing that the bus was carrying Soldiers who were still behind it.
The soldiers and the officers got into a heated argument, and the Soldiers insisted on taking one-way.
They allegedly jumped on the officers and beat then mercilessly. Two police officers were also kidnapped by the soldiers and taken to their barracks, where they continued to beat them.
The source added that the troops decided to take the kidnapped policemen to their hospital at the cantonment when they saw that they had become unconscious.
Inspector Monday Orube, one of the police officers, tragically passed away on Thursday afternoon, August 4.
Another source added that when the Police Officers stopped the Soldiers on their way to their cantonment on a coastal bus, they were upset and questioned why Civilians would be allowed to pass before them.
“More than 30 Soldiers battered the three traffic wardens before kidnapping them to their cantonment.”
Both of them were rushed to their hospital since one of them was unconscious.
The policemen were kidnapped, and as of the time this story was filed, their rifles, which included two AK-47s and more than 70 rounds of ammunition, had been in the Soldiers’ control since Wednesday when the incident occurred.
According to The News Guru, the Police Officials are senior officers with more than twenty years of service, whilst the Soldiers implicated in this illegal crime are among the lowest in rank and have only served for four years.
Police Public Relations Officer for Lagos State Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, verified the event.
“It is true that an encounter took place between our police and up to thirty soldiers on Wednesday around the Ojo area of the State,” he stated.
He did, however, add that the Command and the Army, the incident’s sibling agency, are collaborating to find a solution.
