The Divisional Police Officer at Igbon Police Station in the
Surulere Local Government Area of Oyo State, Ayodeji Adepoju, allegedly shot
and injured a member of the Oyo State Security Network Agency known as Amotekun
on Friday.
The DPO, it was learnt, ordered the arrest of two operatives
of the Amotekun Corps for arresting herdsmen whose cattle were grazing on the
farm in Gambari, allegedly destroying crops in the process.
The aggrieved farmer was said to have reported the case to
Amotekun in the area and the herdsmen were arrested.
But some of the herdsmen were said to have reported the case to the DPO who ordered the arrest of the two Amotekun operatives, Jenyo and Olatunji Mayowa, who were investigating the case.
It was gathered that the DPO said the Amotekun was not set
up to arrest herdsmen but to go after armed robbers.
The unit Commander of Amotekun in the area, Araoye Amoo, was
said to have gone to the police station with his men to secure the release of
the two officials.
He was discussing with the station guard when the DPO
stormed out of his office and reportedly collected a gun from a policeman and
shot one of the Amotekun men in the leg.
The DPO repeatedly claimed that he overheard the Amotekun
corps say they were coming to the station to kill him.
The unit commander said one of the Amotekun corps who
escaped from the scene was pursued and disarmed.
Araoye said the police checked and discovered that the gun
which was forcefully collected from the Amotekun was not even loaded.
The unit commander, in a video said all the guns which his
men carried to the station were not loaded because they did not go there to
fight but to secure the release of those arrested.
The Amotekun commandant in Oyo State, Col Olayinka Olayanju
(retd), confirmed the incident to our correspondent, adding that the injured
Amotekun official had been taken to the LAUTECH Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso.
He said, “The DPO arrested and detained our men that
arrested herdsmen. The unit commander led some of his people there to ask for
the release of his men but the DPO was said to have shot them. One of them was
injured and he is on admission at LAUTECH Teaching Hospital.”
The Police Public Relations Officer in Oyo State, Mr
Olugbenga Fadeyi, later said in a statement the Fulani reported that some
Amotekun operatives wanted to set their settlement on fire and some policemen
who were deployed there brought the Amotekun men to the police station.
He was however silent on the shooting of the Amotekun
operative.
The PPRO said, “It was a report from the Secretary of
Miyetti Allah, one, Oroji Allah ‘m’ at Orile Igbon Police Station that some
Amotekun operatives planned to set ablaze Fulani ‘Igaa’. A team of policemen
was sent to the scene and brought them to the station for amicable settlement
by the DPO.
“Not too long, Amotekun corps numbering about 30 invaded the
station and conducted themselves in an unruly and riotous manner. Three of them
were arrested. The Area Commander Ogbomoso is handling the matter.”
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