On Saturday, members of the Ogun State Police Command arrested three people who they say tried to kill police sergeant Sunday Akinpelu.
Akinpelu was assaulted while performing his duty in the Obafemi Owode Local Government area of Ogun State’s Orile Imo neighbourhood.
The three suspects, Olayiwola Basiru, Bamimore Isiaka, and Soliu, are accused of attacking Sgt. Akinpelu and trying to set a police tow vehicle on fire to stop the investigation into what caused the accident.
When there was an accident at Orile Imo, the Sergeant in charge of the traffic section of the Owode Egba division was told to help the people who were hurt and bring the damaged cars back to the station.
Abimbola Oyeyemi, a spokesman for the Ogun State police, said on Monday that when the arrested suspects arrived at the site, they attacked the police officer and the tow truck driver with a sledge hammer, sticks, and other hazardous weapons.
According to Oyeyemi, this was done to stop them from transporting one of the automobiles involved in the collision to the station.
Oyeyemi claimed that the police officer and the driver of the tow truck had made it to the station “with varied degrees of injuries.”
Following a briefing on the attack, CSP Olasunkanmi Popoola, the divisional police officer for Owode Egba, had dispatched his men to the scene, “where he met the suspects who had already poured gasoline on the towing vehicle and were about setting it on fire, after removing a cash sum of N520,000, belonging to the towing vehicle’s driver.”
While the DPO managed to retrieve the last of the gasoline from the hoodlums, it was reported that others managed to flee while three of the hoodlums were caught.
At the same time, it was said that Lanre Bankole, who is in charge of the police force, had given the order for the suspects who had gotten away to be found and arrested.
He also gave the order to send the suspects who were being held to the State CIID for further investigation and possible prosecution.
