A police officer shot dead Nigerian Legion officer Kola Oshola while illegally enforcing the Okada ban in Lagos state.
Oshola was shot by police officers from the Ogombo Division at the Scheme 2 estate on the Lekki Peninsula on Friday.
Oshola, who was shot in the thigh by a certain Supol Abayomi, is currently on the brink of death as doctors scramble to save his life.
It was found that prior to the ban on commercial motorcycles on main roads in Lagos, police officers from the Illegal Service Department entered the property to confiscate an okada or two and force owners to pay money before handing them over to the owners.
As a result of the police’s nefarious activities on the estate, the Okada operators complained to the estate’s chairman.
The chairman of Scheme 2 Estate ordered Nigeria Legion officials to intervene whenever officials entered the property to blackmail the operators.
Matters came to a head on Friday when police officers from the division stormed the property in their numbers to arrest okada operators inside the state and Nigerian Legion officials intervened on orders from the estate.
Angered by the officer’s intervention, the police then threatened to shoot at them.
And then shot the victim in the thigh.
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