A student of Business Administration, Adeseun Ogundoyin Polytechnic, Eruwa in Oyo State, Akinsuyi Samuel, has been allegedly shot by a yet to be identified police officer.
City & Crime learnt that Akinsuyi was attacked on his way from Eruwa to meet his parents in Ibadan on Friday when a stop and search police team asked him to drop from the vehicle, alleging that he was looking like an internet fraudster.
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Our correspondent gathered that the student was beaten to stupor before he was shot in the leg.
Meanwhile, the South West Coordinator of the National Association of Nigerian Student (NANS), Comrade Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji, has called on the state police command to produce the erring police officer.
The student body lamented the harassment of students on the Ibadan-Eruwa expressway by officers of the Nigeria Police Force from Apata Command.
Confirming the development, the state police public relations officer, Adewale Osifeso, through a text message, said he would update the public as soon as any arrest is made. “You would be updated, please,” he said.
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