An Assistant Superintendent of Police with the Lagos State Police Command was killed on Saturday morning during an altercation with a mob of commercial motorcyclists, known as Okada riders, in the Agege area of Lagos.
The officer, whose identity has not yet been released, was leading a team responding to an accident involving an Okada rider at WEMCO junction along Mobil Road when they encountered fierce resistance from the riders.
Reports indicate that the police were attempting to evacuate a truck that had struck an Okada rider, which led to unrest among the motorcyclists, who demanded the truck be set ablaze.
Benjamin Hundeyin, the spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, described the officer’s death as “needless and uncalled for.”
