Lagos Police Command said that Gunmen had shot and killed a policeman and made with his rifle in Ikorodu on Monday.
SP Benjamin Hundeyin, who is The police spokesman in Lagos State, confirmed the incident to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), saying that three other police officers sustained serious wounds during the unplanned attacl,
Operatives of the Imota Police Division in the Ikorodu area were on patrol duty when they came under the assailants’ attack at Emuren Junction, on Itokin Road in the area.
Local sources said the assailants, suspected errand boys of land grabbers, ambushed the police patrol team, opened fire on it, killed one on the spot and escaped with his rifle.
“On Saturday, police raided cultists’ hideouts in Emuren, Shagamu Local Government Area of Ogun,’’ a resident said.
NAN reports that many innocent people had fallen victim to gun attacks by agents of land grabbers in Ikorodu and its environs in the past.