The Ogun Police Command has commenced the probe of the death of a commercial motorcyclist, Hamza Nura.
Nura was reported to have been shot on Tuesday by a yet-to-be-identified passenger, suspected to be a robber on the link road between Secretariat Central Mosque and Osoba Road in Abeokuta.
According to the PUNCH, a police source, who was privy to the incident but was not authorised to speak, said that the passenger tried snatching the motorcycle from Nura, so he shot Nura in his chest.
The police officers on patrol in the area rushed to the scene immediately but they were unable to apprehend the passenger because the culprit fled on seeing the team.
When contacted, the spokesperson for the Ogun Police Command, Omolola Odutola, confirmed the incident and stated that an additional patrol team was sent to the scene and a stop-and-search was going on in the area to aid their investigation.
She said, “On 07/05/24, at about 22:43hrs, there was sound of gunshots in between the water board and Secretariat Central Mosque. It was revealed that a motorcycle rider, one Nura Hamza ‘M’, who is 25-year-old, and an indigene of Kaita Local Government Area, in Kastina State, was conveying a passenger along a narrow road that links the Secretariat Central Mosque to Osoba Road.
“When they got to a dark spot, the passenger attempted to snatch the motorcycle from the said rider. In the process, the rider was shot in his chest with a cartridge. The patrol team from the Ibara Division on patrol within the area rushed to the scene. The culprit fled on sighting the patrol team.
“The motorcycle with the registration number PKA 977 VC was recovered to Ibara Division. An additional patrol team was led to the scene and divisions were alerted. A stop and search/intel gathering is ongoing,” Odutola said.
