PANDEMONIUM broke out in Abeokuta,
the Ogun State capital yesterday, when a police corporal, Sunkanmi
Ogunbiyi, went berserk, shot dead his wife, a landlady, two
year-old girl and three others before killing himself.
After killing his estranged wife who
was also a policewoman, Corporal Oluwatosin Faremi, attached to the Obantoko
Police Division, the rampaging police corporal reportedly shot dead a
commercial motorcycle rider, and five members of a family, before shooting
himself dead immediately.
The tragic incident which occurred
at Akingbala area of Eleweran, Abeokuta, at 7:02 am reportedly forced
some policemen to abscond from their duty posts.
Also, residents of the area fled the
place to avoid being caught in the mayhem.
It was gathered that in the process,
three other persons sustained gunshot injuries and were rushed to the Federal
Medical Centre, Idi-Aba for treatment.
Vanguard gathered that the killer policeman had in the past issued
several warnings to the landlady, popularly called Iya Basira, to desist from
harbouring his wife and children in her house whenever they had any
misunderstanding and she moved out of his house.
But the landlady who lived at 67,
Ifelodun Street, Akingbala area, was said to have turned deaf ears to the
warnings, preferring to shelter the policeman’s wife and two children.
An eye witness who pleaded anonymity
told Vanguard that the furious policeman stormed the landlady’s
place at about 7:02 am and immediately shot his wife, the commercial motorcycle
rider simply identified as Kunle and other four members of the family including
a two-year-old girl, who was sleeping, to death.
Ogunbiyi, according to findings, who
had laid ambush for his victims in a nearby bush was said to have emerged from
nowhere with his rifle, killing the commercial motorcycle rider who was about
to pick the wife, already dressed for work, and their two children who were
said to be in their school uniforms, in front of the house.
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