The Ogun Police Command says the footballer that was killed on Saturday was knocked down by a hit-and -run driver and not by a policeman as widely reported...
The state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this known in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abeokuta.
But Oyeyemi said the late footballer, who was popularly known as Kaka, died while trying to escape after his arrest.According to him, the footballer was also arrested for wearing a military cap and not on suspicion of internet fraud. “A police inspector attached to Zonal Intervention Squad, Obada-Oko, in Abeokuta, was said to have received an information about the deceased that he was always putting on military apparels knowing fully well that he was not a military personnel.
” On the way to Abeokuta, the vehicle they were traveling in developed a mechanical fault and while the officer was trying to rectify the fault, the arrested person jumped down from the vehicle to escape.
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