One killed as police officers open fire near Lagos viewing centre
A Nigerian man was killed on Sunday after being hit by a stray bullet fired by police officers during a raid in his neighbourhood in Lagos.
Mr Johnson, 36, died from the gunshot wounds at the hospital shortly thereafter, and the police officers fled the scene, it was learnt. His sister, Toluwani Lukmon, was crying and writhing when PREMIUM TIMES called her telephone on Sunday night. The only words she could mutter were that she lacked the strength to comment.
“They wanted to arrest Ismail, who is known to everyone in the area, and people quickly gathered to find out why,” Mr Ikpoba said. “We later learnt that it was because he had dreadlocks that they wanted to arrest, fearing he might be a criminal.” Mr Ikpoba’s account largely validated a pair of tweets posted around 5:00 p.m. by a man who told PREMIUM TIMES he witnessed the incident. The tweets, which contained gruesome videos of a bleeding Mr Johnson, demanded an immediate end to police brutality, especially amongst members of multiple ad-hoc police squads reputed for their brutality.
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