Pandemonium was let loose at Kajola Community in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State yesterday as youths in their hundreds mobilized to burn the police station in the area over police recklessness, leading to the death of three persons including a community Baale.
The angry mobs, amongst other grievances against the police, thronged the Police Divisional Headquarters in Kajola for killing their indigenes at the police checkpoints in the area, along Lagos/Benin Expressways on Saturday evening.
They dumped the three corpses at the Police Divisional Headquarters, Kajola, chanting series of protest songs to register their grievances and declared that they do not want to see police in the community again.
The victims, David Olowofeyekun, Gbenga Abayomi and Kola Akinduro, who was the Head of Korede Village, were on a motorcycle and heading home from their farms.
The community leader, Chief Oloruntobi Maiyegun who spoke with journalists on phone, recounted that he had to spring into action the moment he heard that the people were mobilizing to burn the police station.
But the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mrs Funmilayo Odunlami, dispelled the recklessness report against the police, saying that the deceased flouted the traffic law and incidentally had an accident.
Leke Adegbite
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