A sad development was recorded at Kange, a village near Share, the headquarters of Ifelodun local government as a police officer suddenly released a bullet and succeeded in killing an unarmed civilian instantly.
Folorunsho Ademola, a sergeant attached to the Kwara State police shot Sule Abu dead. To its credit, the state commissioner of Police promptly ordered the arrest of the overzealous officer. Kwara State PPRO, Ajayi Okasanmi confirmed that the officer has been arrested and currently cooling off in police custody.
‘Contrary to the directive by the Inspector General of Police in respect of professionalism by the policemen and women across the length and breadth of the country at all times and by extension, the consequences of disobedience to the extant laws on the use of fire arms by police officers, on the 22nd of March, at about 0830hrs, Force No, 264783, Sergeant Folorunsho Ademola attached to the Counter Terrorism Unit of the Kwara State police command, using his AK 47 rifle shot and killed a man identified as Sule Abu at Kange village via Share without any justification.
He has been arrested and currently under investigation, if found culpable, he will be dismissed from the Force and charged to court. The press release becomes necessary in order to remind the men of the state Command about the responsibility and the mandate to protect lives and property and not to take the life of any citizen unlawfully. It is also meant to assure members of the public that we are immutably resolved to discharge our mandate in accordance with the laid down rules of the country’, he stated.