A Police Man crushes his colleague to death in Pursuit of a "Yahoo boy"

Superintendent of Police, Ayeni has been crushed to death by a patrol van belonging to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) unit of the Ekiti State Police Command.

The incident occurred on Tuesday evening along Federal Polytechnic, Ado/Iran Road in Ado-Ekiti.

It was gathered that the RRS operatives who drove recklessly were chasing suspected fraudsters, otherwise known as Yahoo boys when they hit their colleague who was on a motorcycle.

It was learnt that the Superintendent of Police Ayeni who was attached to Odo Ado police state died on the spot.

“He came home to eat, his wife has a shop around Aba Ebira in the polytechnic community. There is this bad spot along the road, beside the silo, so the deceased came to his wife’s shop up eat, he came with one of his friend’s motorcycles. He was working at Odo Ado which is not that far from here.

“The RRS operatives were in two Hilux vehicles chasing a Benz. I don’t know where they were chasing the guys from, as they were about to overtake the Benz, the deceased who is popularly known as Baba Ada was coming from the other side and one of the vehicles hit him. He died immediately.”

Meanwhile, the Ekiti State Police Command debunked the rumour that his officer died while chasing yahoo boys.

The Police Public relations officer in the state, ASP Sunday Abutu in a statement made available to journalists on Wednesday said that, the RRS from Ikole responded to a distress call from members of the public over the activities of some cultists who have been terrorising the area.

According to him, “unfortunately, one of their vans developed fault and ran into a motorcycle which accidentally happened to be a Police officer coming from work.

“The Command wishes to state clearly that: On the 28/12/2021 at about 18:30hrs, a distress call was received from the DPO Ikole-Ekiti by the Rapid Response Squad(RRS) for reinforcement for the possible arrest of some suspected cultists who have been terrorising the people of Ikole-Ekiti and it’s environs.

“Upon the receipt of the report, the RRS Commander deployed three patrol vehicles with adequate operatives to that axis for the operation.

“Unfortunately, while on their way, one of the three patrol vehicles developed a mechanical fault, went off its lane and hit an oncoming motorcycle riden by a policeman who had closed from work and was returning home.

He explained further that, the victim was immediately rushed to the hospital for medical attention but later died.

“The Policeman was rushed to the hospital for medical attention but was confirmed dead by a medical doctor while eight other RRS operatives in the patrol vehicle sustained different degrees of injuries and are currently in the hospital receiving medical attention.

The command later condemned the reporter of an online media platform that reported the fake news of being unprofessional in his reportage without confirming the true picture

“In view of this, the Ekiti State Police Command is at loss at the mental status of the reporter that propagated the fake news.

“The reporter( name withheld) did not patiently and professionally confirm the story but shamelessly chose to disrespect the life of the policeman that was lost while on national assignment. The action of the reporter and his platform is very disgraceful, unfortunate, ungodly, inhuman and not inline with the practice of good journalism.

He, therefore, urged members of the public to disregard the fake news from the online media

“Members of the public are therefore, enjoined to disregard and discountenance the news and consider it as one of those fake news on the social media that are aimed at causing unnecessary tension, portray the Nigeria Police Force in bad unpleasant garb and procreate an uprise against the force.

He said the Commissioner of Police in the state sympathizes with the family of the departed

“Meanwhile, the Ekiti State Commissioner, *CP Tunde Mobayo,* on behalf of the Command, sympathizes with the family of the deceased Police Officer and pray God grants him eternal rest.

“The Commissioner has visited the injured police officer in the hospital and will also visit the family house of the deceased ASP in other to sympathize with them.

The Commissioner further warned against the fabrication and spread of fake news and implores everyone to ensure they verify the source of all information they receive.