Published: Tuesday, 3 Jun 2008
Following the killing of a 40-year-old man, Mr. Semiu Murtala, in his car in Lagos on Saturday, six policemen believed to have perpetrated the act have been arrested.

The trigger-happy policemen were attached to the Idimu police station and were said to be on patrol when the gory incident happened.

A protest by youths in the area followed the dastardly act before the monarch of Egbeda, Chief Samson Balogun, intervened.

An investigation by our correspondent on Monday showed that the police authorities in the state had ordered the divisional police officer at Idimu to fish out the culprits.

By Monday morning, all the policemen in the team that allegedly killed Murtala had been identified and ordered to be detained at the station.

The suspects, led by a sergeant, were said to have been transferred to the homicide department of the state Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba.

The policemen were being interrogated before an orderly room trial which might be organised by the command.

If found culpable, the policemen could be dismissed from the force and made to face criminal prosecution.

The spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Mr. Frank Mba, confirmed the arrest of the errant policemen to our correspondent on Monday.

”The police will surely make a discrete investigation into the matter and I assure everybody that we shall allow justice to prevail in this case,” he said.

Murtala was allegedly shot dead by a policeman on Idimu Road, Egbeda, at about 7am on Saturday.

The deceased, in company with a friend, Gani, was said to be returning from a soccer practice at the Ebenezer Primary School, Egbeda, when he was killed.

It was learnt that Murtala was driving a Nissan Xterra jeep with registration number BF 54 EPE, and was racing to beat the 7am commencement of the state monthly environmental sanitation exercise.

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The idiots should be given life with no option of parole

This is another case of police brutality.They (Police) are at it again.When would all this end?Can't the police start killing the likes of OBJ & his fellow cohort of looters?

The policemen are taken from among the people; it means there's something wrong with the populace

Blatant:

The policemen are taken from among the people; it means there's something wrong with the populace

This is so true.
actually an Eureka moment
I've never taken time to see it this way.
The corruption and lawlessness is endemic in the society and we expect the police to be upright citizens?

Arrested, yes,.

prosecuted? Not likely.

bad case of deja vu here

result of recruiting secondary school leavers into the police force,no retraining, next to no discipline and morales at rock bottom, a lot of them need to be kicked out and they should recruit officers with a minimum of polytechnic certificate and a complete overhault

i just don't know what kind of policemen we have in Naija!!!, the average nigerian is afraid of the police. The funny thing is that these policemen that are equally poor, show no mercy when they carryout injustice on other fellow innocent poor nigerians, i don tire 4 this place,