A tragedy hit the Ekiti State Police
Command on Thursday as robbers killed a policeman, identified simply as
Inspector Gada, and injured another cop called Sergeant Sunday.
It was learnt that the robbers escaped
with a police van in the robbery, which took place in Ilupeju, in the
Oye Local Government Area of the state.
A resident, who pleaded not to be named,
said, “I think the policemen were returning from a patrol in the Itapa
area and got to a checkpoint between Ilupeju and Oye, in front of the
house of a prominent politician in this state, Bamitale Oguntoyinbo,
when the robbers, who had apparently laid an ambush for them, swooped on
them and rained bullets on the policemen.
