The Police Command in Lagos State has denied killing a construction worker employed by Cinoma Contractors at the Dangote Refinery in Lagos.

This comes after reports, on 3rd of November, 2020, claimed that a police officer, name withheld, shot and killed one Mr Sunday Aondowwase, 37, while workers protest non-payment of allowance at the refinery.

According to the spokesperson of the state police command, Muyiwa Adejobi, no shooting whatsoever took place during the protest.

Adejobi said that the news is fake, adding that Aondowwase is indeed alive and has been received by the DPO Akodo Station CSP Orire Thomas and senior staff of the refinery.

The statement reads in part:

The workers of some of the  companies working at the refinery had protested against non payment of their allowances and poor welfare package by their respective employers on 3rd November, 2020. They were addressed and dispersed peaceably to their various places on the same day. There was no shooting of whatever kind at the refinery  during the protest.

Its was surprising to read in the mendacious news that one Mr Sunday Aondowwase, m, 37 year- old, employee of Cinoma Contractors, working on the site, was shot and killed by the police during the protest. The man that was claimed to have been killed by the police, as contained in the fake news,  is alive. He came up to the Dangote Refinery on 4th November, 2020, to refute the death rumour. He was recieved by the DPO Akodo Station CSP Orire Thomas and senior staff of the refinery.

The command, therefore, wishes to appeal to the general public to disregard the news and always endeavour to confirm any peddled news, particularly on the social media, as such fake breaking news, without adequate confirmation, could be dangerous and counterproductive. The general public is also urged to be wary of the antics of certain social media influencers who are bent on regularly creating violence in the state and across the country in general.