EXCLUSIVE: Many Sustain Gun Wounds, As Amotekun Officers Shoot Indiscriminately On Residents
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No fewer than twenty residents sustained varying degrees of injuries from the indiscriminate shooting of alleged Amotekun officers.
According to a close source, suspected members of Oyo Amotekun shot sporadically at Ayegoro on Tuesday evening.
A 19-year-old lady, Zainab Adetunji, who was a shooting victim said the incident became strange to her, as she was caught among other residents who were going home around Ayegoro, Kolapo Isola, General Gas, Ibadan area.
Zainab added that the Amotekun officers chased residents into neighboring communities including Ayegoro, and Kolapo Isola, with continued shooting thereby leaving plenty of the residents injured.
Zainab Adetunji said she received several bullets into her body but was rescued by some members of the community to a hospital where seven victims received medical attention.
Other speaking, Samson Oguntola said the Amotekun Officers insisted all the victims would be killed irrespective of their number.
Oguntola maintained that the District Police Officer of the area visited the victims while on medical attention on Wednesday morning and has since not reappeared.
In his reaction, the local traditional leader, Ayegoro, Chief Wahab Kolapo Odeyemi lamented the indecisive shooting rampage embarked on by the officers of Amotekun in the area.
Chief Odeyemi noted that the Amotekun officers had on Monday accused shop owners around the place of closing late, and added such treatment was uncalled for.
The traditional leader said his visit to the State Amotekun Headquarters, at Dandaru, revealed that the officers were despatched from her.
Other victims of the Amotekun indiscriminate shooting are Emmanuel Adedayo, Alfa Olugbode, and Kayode Kuti, among others, with plenty of bullet pellets recovered from their bodies.
Meanwhile, the victims who spoke with Agidigbo 88.7FM’s Chairman, Dr. Hamzat Oriyomi, and Naijatodaynews.com Publisher, Prince Adetunji Fabode on Friday appealed to the state governor, Seyi Makinde to establish an investigation into the cause of indiscriminate shooting, reasons the area Police District Officer and Amotekun superintendent visited the victims at the hospital, took pictures on Wednesday morning with no reaction yet on the incident.
