By Tonia Okereke
A student on his way sit for a paper as part of the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination being organised by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital has been killed by a police man.
The student who is a twin was hit by a stray bullet along Gbagi market road in the Egbeda Local Government Area of the state when a stray bullet allegedly fired by the policeman pursuing a vehicle.
According to Punch the student was riding on a motorcycle with his father and twin brother when the stray bullet hit and killed him.
The student, according to multiple eyewitnesses, was on his way to the examination centre.
“A police officer opened fire while chasing a fleeing vehicle. One of the bullets reportedly hit the student. The student was riding on a motorcycle with his father and twin brother”, the newspaper quoted an eyewitness as saying.
One of the sources, simply identified as Ajani, said, “A police officer opened fire while chasing a fleeing vehicle. One of the bullets reportedly hit the student. The student was riding on a motorcycle with his father and twin brother.
“The victim was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Another witness told the paper, “The deceased was on his way to the examination centre alongside his twin brother when the tragedy happened.”
Meanwhile, irate youths took the student’s lifeless body to the state Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, to demand justice and called on Governor Seyi Makinde to intervene.
The deceased body has been deposited at Adeoyo Hospital morgue.
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