Tina Ezekwe – In Memory Of Those Killed Illegally By The Nigerian Police
October 23, 2020
Tina Ezekwe, 16, was at Iyana-Oworo bus stop in Lagos, where she sold fruits for her mother when a police officer arguing with a bus driver over bribe fired shots and a stray bullet hit Tina on Monday May 26, 2020.
She died three days later, on Thursday May 28, at a hospital in Lagos Island.
The Lagos Police Command announced, on June 1, 2020, that it had arrested and commenced disciplinary procedures against the two officers – ASP Theophilus Otobo and Inspector Oguntoba Olamigoke, indicted in the incident. There has been no update on the case after then.
