Police in Oyo say one person was killed during a confrontation between security agents and protesters on Saturday in the state
Protesters had converged on major streets in Ibadan, the State capital Friday over scarcity of naira notes and petrol leading to the destruction of bank facilities and the governor’s office , amongst several others..
In a statement, the State Police Command’d Spokesman , Adewale Osifeso said the killing of the individual said to be a member of a vigilante group occurred at 10:15am while security agents were on a Joint patrol around the Apata area of the Ido Local Government Area of the state.
“Today Saturday, 04/02/2023 at about 1015hrs, while embarking series of confidence-building patrols around different black spots and flash points, the joint convoy by patrol comprising of the police and other agencies ran into a band of hoodlums around Apata Junction Market, Apata Area under Ido Local Government Area,” the statement partly read.
“In a rather surprising event, the hoodlums who had perfected plans to molest residents, harass shop owners and loot shops on sighting the combined convoy of security launched a series of unprovoked attacks by firing guns, hurling stones, sharp objects and other dangerous missiles at them.
“During the rage, an individual identified to have been a member of a vigilante group and who was reported to have died in the fiasco has since been deposited at a government hospital for post-mortem.”
Osifeso said normalcy had since returned with deployment of patrol teams and other tactical assets to the area.
