The Former DPO who has been dismissed and is currently on trial for the killing of Ademola Daramola and injuring others on January 9, 2012 during the fuel subsidy protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress.
Ex Divisional Police Officer, DPO, Segun Fabunmi of Pen Cinema Division Of Lagos State Police Command told Lagos High Court on Wednesday that he could not fantom how ammunition given to him disappeared from his AK-47 rifle.
The Former DPO who has been dismissed and is currently on trial for the killing of Ademola Daramola and injuring others on January 9, 2012 during the fuel subsidy protest organised by the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress.
Fabunmi said during the trial that his AK-47 rifle was open while he was on his way to the protest scene at , Yaya-Abatan, Agege, and that when Daramola died he could not recount how many bullets that was left in his rifle.
Fabunmi, who was being cross-examined by Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution, DPP, Mrs. Olabisi Ogungbesan, told Justice Olabisi Akinlade that he neither chased anybody, shot nor injured people.
He said: “I did not run after the late Ademola Daramola, may his soul rest in peace. I do not know him. Why would I chase him? It is ridiculous.
“I never ran to anywhere neither did I fire any shot at anybody.”
The defendant explained to the Justice Olabisi Akinlade that on January 9, 2012, when he received a distress call that hoodlums at Yaya Abatan Junction, Ogba Agege area, were breaking people’s windscreens and holding innocent people hostage.
he said when he got there, there was breakdown of law and order and when they saw him and other 7 police men they started trowing stones, bottles and all manner of things at them.
Fabunmi was asked if he knew that some bullets left his gun this was what he said ”Yes. I knew that some ammunition got out of my gun when the hoodlums were trying to dispossess me of my rifle, after I sustained injury.
“It took the grace of God for them not to have collected the rifle from me. The other police officers all ran away.”
Fabunmi who said he had only been DPO for just two months and that he visited Lagos State Teaching Hospital for treatment and could not recall the name of the doctor who treated him.
The case have been adjourned to February 18, 2015, for the adoption of written addresses.