A police post located on Olayiwola Close, in the Oregun area of Ikeja, Lagos State has been set ablaze by some angry youths. The youths who invaded the station in the early hours of Monday also injured a policeman on duty. The assaulted officer sustained an injury in the head and rushed to the emergency centre at the toll gate along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway for prompt treatment. However, the motivation behind the attack is yet to be known.
The youths who invaded the station in the early hours of Monday also injured a policeman on duty.
A police post located on Olayiwola Close, in the Oregun area of Ikeja, Lagos State has been set ablaze by some angry youths.The assaulted officer sustained an injury in the head and rushed to the emergency centre at the toll gate along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway for prompt treatment.Officials of the Lagos State Fire Service were contacted and mobilised to the scene to salvage the situation, The PUNCH reports.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident said an investigation into the case had commenced.He asserted that no suspect had been arrested, noting that a police reinforcement was promptly dispersed to the scene and two of the agitators were arrested while others escaped.
Meanwhile, two suspected members of the Yoruba Nation were arrested during an attempt to take over the Alausa Police Station in Ikeja on Sunday.During the invasion, the agitators, numbering about 15, while on the premises, brought out their phones and started recording the station and themselves chanting, “No more Nigeria police again”, “Yoruba Nation has taken over in Yoruba land.”"Charms, cutlasses and insignia of the group were recovered from the suspects," Hundeyin added.
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