A policeman identified as Supol Ayeni has d!ed after he was reportedly h!t by a patrol van belonging to the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) unit of the Ekiti State Police Command.
The incident, according to SaharaReporters, occurred on Tuesday evening, December 28, along Federal Polytechnic, Ado/Ijan Road.
It was gathered that RRS operatives who allegedly drove recklessly were chasing suspected fr#udsters, otherwise known as Yahoo boys when they h!t their colleague who was on a motorcycle. He d!ed on the spot.
“He actually came home to eat, his wife has a shop around Aba Ebira in the polytechnic community. There is this bad spot along the road, beside the silo, so the deceased came to his wife’s shop to eat, he came with one of his friend’s motorcycle. He was working at Odo Ado which is not that far from here.
The RRS operatives were in two hilux vehicles chasing a Benz. I don’t know where they were chasing the guys from, as they were about to overtake the Benz, the deceased who is popularly known as Baba Ada was coming from the other side and one of the vehicles h!t him. He d!ed immediately,” a source said.
A colleague of the deceased who confirmed the incident said the RRS operatives involved have been identified and detained at the state headquarters.
