There is currently panic among parents and children in Ogijo, Sagamu Local Government, Ogun State, after a Police officer allegedly killed a soldier during an altercation in the community.
As gathered, the police officer, who was popularly called Mopol by residents, was said to have shot the soldiers after the public disagreement degenerated with both law enforcement officers’ threatening to kill each other.
While the altercation intensified on Wednesday, the policeman was said to have reached out for his pistol and shot the soldier who was reported to have died.
Sources told The Guild that after the soldier was pronounced dead at about 6pm, his colleagues decided to retaliate, launching an attack on Ogijo police station where the mobile police officer was deployed by the Ogun police Command.
After the attack, eyewitnesses told our correspondent that the soldiers set the police station, patrol vehicles, and an armoured tank within the axis ablaze.