All hell broke loose on Wednesday on Olaleye Street, in the Iponri area of Lagos State, after an armed robber shot dead a leader of the Oodua People’s Congress, Sanjo Akintoye, during a failed attack.
The robber who came on a motorcycle with another suspect, expended his bullets on the 43-year-old security guard, who struggled with him till the end. As he made to reload his pistol, residents swooped on him and broke his skull with stones, sticks and bottles. He died on the spot and the corpse was recovered by policemen from the Iponri division.
Our correspondent, who visited the scene, learnt that the suspect and his accomplice had trailed a worker at a construction site, who had gone to withdraw N500,000 from a branch of Zenith bank in the area. A witness, who did not identify himself, said the rider and the passenger were challenged for riding a motorcycle into the area. He said, “One of us, Baba Bolu, challenged them for riding motorcycle into the area.
The man at the back of the motorcycle shot him in the leg and in the hand. Chairman (Akintoye) was returning from the toilet when he heard the gunshots and he confronted the robber. “The robber faced him and released a hail of bullets on him. Chairman was hit, but he moved closer to the suspect.
The robber continued to fire shots till he expended his bullets.” The gunshots attracted the attention of other OPC members and some residents in the area, Who blocked all escape routes."Immediately we saw that he had expended his bullets, one of us attacked the robber as he climbed the motorcycle to flee the scene. He fell Some other people moved closer and hit him with planks, bottles and any weapon they could find, but the rider escaped,” he added. Akintoye was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was confirmed dead. The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Dolapo Badmos confirmed the incident.
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