A trigger-happy policeman, Mr. Pius
Senu, has shot and killed a driver, Michael Ishola, at Awo in the
Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State.
Our correspondent gathered that Ishola’s wife was just delivered of a baby about two weeks ago.
The driver was allegedly shot dead
following his refusal to pay a sum of money as a bribe which the
policeman allegedly demanded from him.
It was further learnt that the victim
had earlier passed through the road and was made to bribe the policeman,
but he was said to have refused to give another bribe when the cop
allegedly demanded a fresh one while he was returning from his trip.
The officer was said to have started
hitting Ishola’s vehicle with the butt of his riffle and threatened to
kill the driver if he refused to pay the money he demanded.
The 48-year-old policeman was said to have shot the driver in the stomach and he died on the spot.
On realising that the driver had died,
the cop and his colleagues were said to have fled the scene, while some
residents and passengers reported the case at a nearby police station.
The policeman was arraigned at a Magistrate’s Court sitting in Osogbo on Thursday for murder.
Senu was arraigned on one count of murder.
The charge read, “That you, Senu Pius,
on December 20, 2016, at about 10.30pm, at Ara Junction, Awo, in the Ede
Magisterial District, sitting at Osogbo, did shoot one Ishola Michael
to death, thereby committing an offence contrary to Section 319 (1) of
the Criminal Code, Cap 34 Vol.II, Law of Osun State of Nigeria, 2002.”
His plea was not taken by the
magistrate, Adejoke Olowolagba, who ordered that he should be remanded
in the Ilesa Prison and adjourned the case till February 9, 2017, for
mention.
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