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<\/p>\nThe Police Command\u2019s spokesman, DSP Bala Elkana, made this confirmation while speaking to newsmen in Lagos State.<\/p>\n
Elkana added that the policemen have been arrested and subjected to orderly room trial after a video of their alleged action went viral on social media.<\/p>\n
\u201cAttention of Lagos State Police Command was drawn to a video on social media showing some Police officers shooting two unarmed suspects who were arrested and already in their custody against the code of professional conduct and laws guiding how suspects in Police custody should be treated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Policemen were identified as Insp. Fabiyi Omomayara, Sgt. Olaniyi Solomon, Sgt. Solomon Sunday and Cpl Aliyu Mukaila attached to Iba Division Patrol team.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe incident happened on Aug. 8 at 3.00pm, when Iba Police Station received a distress call from one Anugu Valentine that he was attacked by a group of armed men numbering about four on two motorcycles at Ipayi area, Iba and they dispossessed him of one iPhone max valued at N450, 000.<\/p>\n
\u201cActing on the information, the Divisional Police Officer of Iba promptly deployed the Divisional Patrol team to the scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo of the armed robbers were arrested while two escaped. Two locally made pistols with six life cartridges and five expended cartridges were recovered,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The PPRO added that the gang was said to be notorious for series of robberies in Iba and environs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a well-celebrated operation by the team as the suspects were gallantly arrested.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team, however, went to the extreme by killing the suspects who were already in their custody instead of taking them to the police station and allowing the normal process of investigation and prosecution to be initiated as stipulated under procedural laws.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat act of extrajudicial killings falls short of police professional standards and cannot be condoned by the Command.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Commissioner of Police Lagos State, CP Zubairu Muazu has ordered a thorough investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police officers are currently being subjected to internal disciplinary proceedings known as `Orderly Room\u2019 trial and if found culpable, they will be dismissed from the Force and will be handed over to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, for prosecution in the Court.<\/p>\n
\u201cMembers of the public will be updated on the outcome of the investigation and trial,\u201d Elkana said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, officially confirmed that four policemen are to face murder charges for allegedly killing two suspected armed robbers in their custody. The Police Command\u2019s spokesman, DSP Bala Elkana, made this confirmation while speaking to newsmen in Lagos State. Elkana added that the policemen have been arrested and subjected to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}