‘Officials involved in killing of man in Ijebu-Ode undergoing interrogation’ – Customs
The Customs officers involved in the brutal killing of a man identified as Godwin are being interrogated according to the NCS’ spokesman Joseph Attah.
Godwin was felled by a bullet fired by officer Destiny Onebamho while the officers stopped a commercial bus it said was transporting bales of used clothing along Sagamu Interchange Ijebu-Ode on Sunday.
An eyewitness at the scene had said the officials were demanding for a N5,000 bribe when the incident ocurred.
The Customs quickly denied that the shooting was intentional, citing accidental discharge as the cause for Godwin’s death.
Attah told NAN on Monday that the Customs Assistant Comptroller General, Zone A, Ekekezie Kessy visited the Federal Operations Unit in the zone at Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday to interrogate the officers involved.
He maintained that the victim was not one of the travelling passengers but a friend of the Customs.
“The officers involved are being interrogated, we look at it holistically, including weapon handling skills,” Attah said.
“If the officers are found guilty, they will be punished appropriately, we will allow the investigation to take place first.
“We still stand our ground that it is not a passenger of the bus that was deliberately shot dead but the victim was hit by the accidental discharge.
“An audio is now trending from one of the passengers of the bus that the person that died is not one of them.
“We insist that the person that died was not a passenger but a good Samaritan who used to assist our officers, we described him as a friend of Customs,” he further explained.
