Policeman shoots woman to death, injures husband in Lagos

*As CP queries DPO, orders arrest of team members;
Killer cop charged for murder
By Evelyn Usman & Ebere Aham
LAGOS—A police corporal attached to Isheri-Oshun
Division in Lagos, Wednesday night, fired a shot at a
moving tricycle along Isheri/ Ijegun road, killing the wife
of the operator, Idongesit Ekpo, on the spot.
Doctors at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH,
are however, battling to save the life of the operator,
Godwin Ekpo, who was reportedly also hit by a bullet.
Consequently, visibly angry Lagos State Commissioner
of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, has ordered the immediate
arrest of members of the team on duty that night.
The arrested team members include Sergeant Benson
Ahambo, Corporal Augustine Telenundu, Corporal Onu
Samuel and Corporal Musefun Aremu.
DPO queried
Owoseni has also queried the Divisional Police Officer in-
charge of the division for allowing his men to operate
without a properly labelled Police vehicle.
Information at Vanguard’s disposal had it that the
tricycle operator was returning from church with his wife
and four children between the ages of 1 and 12 in the
tricycle, popularly known as Keke Marwa, when the
police corporal flagged him down.
PROTEST: Tricycle operators protesting alleged killing of
wife of their colleegue by a policeman in Isheri-Oshun
area of Lagos.
It was also gathered that tricycle operators usually gave
the policemen between N50 and N100 in the morning and
also at night.
But Ekpo was said to have refused to stop to give the
policeman money, arguing that the passengers were his
family members.
Eye witnesses alleged that the corporal fired some shots