Police sergeant killed after being dragged under vehicle in Lagos

A constabulary serviceman has died aft being knocked down and dragged underneath a conveyance during a stop-and-search cognition successful Egbeda, Lagos State.

It was gathered that the incidental occurred connected September 26 astatine astir 2:20pm on Olugbede Street, Egbeda, erstwhile constabulary officers conducting the cognition flagged down a Lexus ES 350 with registration fig FKJ 223 KX.

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Tijani Fatai, disclosed this on Monday during a property briefing connected the command’s achievements successful September 2026.

Fatai said the driver, identified arsenic 21-year-old Olumide Olusola, initially brought the conveyance to a halt but abruptly accelerated arsenic Sergeant Johnson Okediji approached the driver’s side.

According to the commissioner, the serviceman was knocked down and dragged underneath the conveyance for respective metres contempt efforts by chap constabulary officers and passers-by to get the operator to stop.

The operator was yet pursued and arrested, portion the injured serviceman was rushed to a adjacent infirmary earlier being referred to the Lagos State University Teaching...