Police officer dies after being run over during stop-and-search operation in Lagos

A constabulary sergeant, Johnson Okediji, has died aft helium was allegedly knocked down and tally implicit by a motorist during a halt and hunt cognition successful the Egbeda country of Lagos State.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Tijani Fatai, disclosed the incidental portion briefing journalists connected the command’s activities for September.

According to him, the incidental occurred on Olugbede Street, Egbeda, erstwhile officers connected regular stop-and-search work signalled a Lexus ES 350 with registration fig FKJ 223 KX, driven by 20-year-old Olumide Olusola, to stop.

Fatai said the operator initially complied but abruptly accelerated arsenic Sergeant Okediji approached the vehicle.

He alleged that the fishy knocked down the serviceman and dragged him beneath the conveyance for respective metres contempt efforts by chap officers and passers-by to halt him.

“The fishy was yet chased and arrested. However, Sergeant Okediji sustained aggregate fractures and terrible caput injuries during the incident,” the constabulary commissioner said.

He added that the injured serviceman was rushed to a adjacent infirmary and aboriginal referred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, wherever helium was pronounced dormant connected arrival.

According to Fatai, the remains of the deceased serviceman person been deposited astatine the Mainland Hospital Mortuary for preservation and autopsy, portion the conveyance ...