POLICE KILL DRIVER AT CHECKPOINT •SIX COPS ARRESTED, DETAINED

A driver identified as Friday Igbinedion, who was in an unregistered truck, met an untimely death on Friday after he was allegedly shot dead by the police close to a checkpoint along Ore/Benin road. The incident was confirmed in a press release issued by the Police Public Relations Officer in Ondo State Police Command, Mr Wole Ogodo. The PPRO said the information about the killing of the driver was received about 1p.m., adding that the deceased, “was shot and killed close to a police pin-down point along Ore/Benin road.” Ogodo stated further that the team made up of six policemen attached to the police patrol vehicle along the route had been arrested and detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department of the command. He disclosed that they were being interrogated, promising that the command would make the outcome of the investigation known to the public. Ogodo appealed to members of the public for calm, assuring them that “whoever is indicted will be brought to justice.”