ODUA PEOPLE CONGRESS MEMBER ALLEGEDLY KILLED A MAN IN LAGOS

An Oodua Peoples Congress member, Ismaila Rahmon, who was in charge of security at a school where a Ramadan event took place, allegedly killed in error a 72-year-old man ,Alhaji Abdulkareem Kadiru, in Ijora Badia area of Lagos State on August 4, 2013.It was garther that Rahman allegedly killed the Alhaji with a gun he seized from an armed robber but failed to turn it over to the police.

The 30-year-old suspect said, “I sell shirts at Oluwole and I am also a part-time Yoruba movie actor. I have starred in three films but I do not get paid because I am an apprentice. In order to make ends meet, I joined the OPC and I earn N12, 000 a month.

“On the day Alhaji was killed, Obasanjo and I went to a secondary school in the area to provide security for influential personalities who came there for Ramadan benevolence programme where they donated items to members of the community.

“When Alhaji arrived, I escorted his vehicle into the compound and touts stormed the school in order to extort money from him. I had been told that area boys would come so I came to the school with a gun. When I attempted to disperse the hoodlums and they refused to go, I shot into the air. I also attempted to give Tuale (salute) to Alhaji with another gunshot because I wanted him to give me money. It was in the process that the bullet hit him in his head.”

“The area boys beat me up and collected all the money on me which was about N20,000. They seized my phone, kicked me in the penis many times and inflicted wounds on my head. It was the police that saved me from death. The policemen that came arrested me and took me to their station,” he said.

When asked if he was licensed and trained to use a weapon, the suspect said, “I was trained by OPC to use weapons. But I have never used a gun publicly before the incident. The gun did not belong to me; it belonged to an armed robber that I arrested some months ago.”

“I have three children and my wife sells bread. I am pleading with the police and Alhaji’s family to forgive me,” he said.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide, confirmed the killing and said that“The matter is under investigation at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba. The suspect would soon be charged to court.”

However, if Nigeria is not a lawlessness country that cannot secure lifes and properties of its citizenry, how on earth will an illiterate who was not trained on how to use or handle a weapon will carry a gun in public? Or without a permission from the police? 

He even claimed that he recovered the gun from armed robber,even at that level is that an  excuse  which give him the order to own the gun if he himself is not an armed robber?

It is a high time that all this monster call OPC should be call to order. Or their activities were properly monitored and regulated.