Security operatives attached to the state’s special security outfits, OP MESA on Thursday shot dead an SS 2 student of Unity High, Ago Ika, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital dead.
The SS 2 student, simply identified as Sadiat, was gunned down by the bullets of one of the OP MESA operatives, whose direct shot missed the target, but hit the 17-years old girl walking out of the school premises after finishing her examination for the day.
LEADERSHIP gathered that the OP MESA operatives were on a hot chase of one of the internet fraudsters popularly referred to as “Yahoo-yahoo boys”, who ran into the area in an attempt to escape arrest.
But in the process of arresting him, the security operatives allegedly shot directly at him without taking into cognisance the presence of the students trooping out of the school premises, as well as other passers-by.
The direct shot fired by the security operatives however, killed Sadiat, the only daughter of her mother, who was pronounced “dead on arrival” at the Federal Medical Center (FMC), Idi Aba, Abeokuta, where she was rushed to for treatment, while three other students and a commercial motorcyclist were also hit by the stray bullets fired by the operatives.
The development, which infuriated Sadiat’s colleagues who approached the Enu – Gada Police Post in Ago Ika area for the purpose of protesting the death of their colleagues.
An SS 1 student of the school, Rafiu Ibrahim, who spoke with LEADERSHIP, alleged that the security operatives shot directly at the students without regard to their safety, even when it was obvious that they were all in school uniform, emerging from the school premises.
When contacted, the command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, who tactically confirmed the incident however, denied knowledge of the death of the SS 2 student of Unity High School, Abeokuta.
Oyeyemi, who disclosed that a Police Inspector (name not disclosed) was machete on the head, further told LEADERSHIP that the security operatives were not chasing any “Yahoo-yahoo” but a notorious secret cultist, who had for a long time, being on the wanted list of the police.
