1 die as protest rocks Sagamu over killing of footballer
One person has been confirmed dead in Sagamu, Ogun state as scores of residents on Monday staged a protest over the death of Remo Stars Football Club player, Kazeem Tiyamiyu.
The protesters, who took to the streets, also stormed the palace of Akarigbo and paramount ruler of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, demanding justice for the deceased footballer.
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Kazeem, popularly known as ‘Kaka’ was killed on Saturday along the Abeokuta-Sagamu Expressway during an encounter with operatives of the Zonal Intervention Squad (ZIS), Obada, who suspected him of being an internet fraudster, ‘Yahoo’ boy.
While police authorities claimed that the deceased attempted to escape after being arrest and was subsequently, knocked down by an oncoming vehicle, the player’s teammate, Sanni Abubakar, who was with him at the time of the arrest, alleged that the deceased was pushed out of the patrol car and before being knocked down by another vehicle.
Enraged by the incident, aggrieved mothers and youths in Sagamu, where the late player and his parents lived, took to the streets on Monday.
They condemned the incessant police brutality and indiscriminate arrests by law -enforcement agents in the town and its environs.
It was gathered that a former governor of Ogun state, Otunba Gbenga Daniel, was also at the palace to appeal to the angry protesters.
Apart from Daniel, a member of the House of Representatives, representing Remo Federal Constituency, Rep. Adewunmi Onanuga, and the Ogun state Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Funmi Efuwape were at the palace to appeal to the protesters.
The protesters were seen moving from one point to the other chanting anti-police slogans, while armed policemen deployed in the town to forestall a breakdown of law and order.
