The police officer who fired the shot that killed Kolade Johnson has finally broken his silence. Inspector Ogunyemi Olalekan, the Speci...
The police officer who fired the shot that killed Kolade Johnson has finally broken his silence.
Inspector Ogunyemi Olalekan, the Special Anti Cultism Squad, SACS
officer who killed Kolade Johnson, has revealed that he only shot once
because he had no intentions of Killing the young man.
In a statement he gave during a recent interview, the officer said
he only shot once in an attempt to arrest a suspected cultist in Mangoro
Lagos.
“We heard a distress call that we should move to Mangoro. So,
on getting there, we saw a group of guys smoking Indian hemp. We thought
they’re cultists and effected an arrest there.
“Suddenly, they mobbed us, me and my boys. So, in terms of
escaping them, I fired up. I didn’t know how it got to meet the guy in
question that was shot dead, I don’t know. I only fired one up”, he said.
Contrary to Olalekan’s version of events, an eyewitness, identified
as Mr Nana, who was with Johnson when he was shot, said Olalekan
trained his gun on them.
“Kolade stood right beside me, he didn’t talk. I was the one
that spoke. Next thing I saw was he pointed a gun at us and shot twice,” he said.
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