Four policemen detained over killing of Bayelsa teenager
No less than four policemen have been confined regarding the claimed executing of a 17-year-old kid, Innocent Kokorifa.
PUNCH Metro had investigated Tuesday that Innocent, the first out of five offspring of Mr. Daniel Kokorifa, an authority of the Federal Road Safety Corps, was shot dead by the Bayelsa State Police Command's Anti-Vice group on Airforce Road in Yenagoa on August 18, 2016.
The casualty was said to run an errand for his mom, Pere, when he was purportedly killed by the police at around 11am on the day.
The state police charge had in an announcement a week ago asserted that the casualty kicked the bucket in a weapon fight between a three-man outfitted theft posse and the police group.
A police source, who did not need his name said on the grounds that he was not approved to talk on the matter, trusted in our journalist on Tuesday that the policemen were confined at the Bayelsa State Command base camp.
The source said, "I am not approved to talk on the matter. In any case, I know those men are in confinement and the police powers are researching the episode.
"I don't have a clue about the precise number of policemen that are confined, yet they are somewhere around three and four."
Endeavors to get the response from the Police Public Relations Officer, Asinim Butswat, were vain as his cellular telephone did not associate.
Additionally, calls put to the telephone of the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adeyemi Ogunjemilusi, on Tuesday, rang out.
The father of the perished youngster, Daniel, had requested equity for his child.
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