The deceased had led a police team to the scene of an accident at WEMCO Junction along Mobil Road when the team attacked by a group of commercial motorcyclists, commonly known as okada riders on Saturday, October 19.

The officers were reportedly dispatched to clear a truck that had struck an Okada rider but faced stiff opposition from the riders, who demanded that the truck be set ablaze.

In a conversation with Daily Trust, the spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin,

described the officer’s killing as needless and unprovoked.

Hundeyin stated that the police received a distress call at around 1:40 a.m. on Saturday regarding an accident involving an Okada rider and a trailer at the WEMCO junction near Pen Cinema in Agege. Initial investigations indicated that the Okada rider collided with the trailer, resulting in his death.

He confirmed that five suspects were arrested in connection with the incident, while a manhunt for others was on.

He further explained that “On getting to the scene, the team met a large number of motorcycle riders who had gathered around the place. However, the patrol team, in the process of evacuating the truck, came under attack by the riders who insisted on torching the truck, as a result of which one ASP, 46 years old, was injured on the head and died on the spot while the truck driver escaped.”

This development is coming a few hours after the Police Command in the State confirmed the death of a divisional police officer (DPO) in charge of Ijanikin Police Station, Bolaji Olugbenga, a chief superintendent of police, who slumped in the office and died before he could be rushed to a hospital on Thursday night.