The Lagos State Task Force Chairman, Jejeloye Shola, a Chief Superintendent of Police, is currently being grilled on the order of the Inspector General of Police, following the killing in Lagos, penultimate week, of a police Sergeant identified as Edison Fulman, with Force Number 500314 who was shot dead in the line of duty.The ill-fated Sergeant was in the company of 16 other policemen attached to Zone 2Command.

They were detailed to provide security at  Etegbin Village (Olubode Egbin)in the Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos for a family that had taken possession of land following a Court judgement in their favour.

It was in the course of providing security at Etegbin when they were suddenly ambushed by a group of matchet-wielding hoodlums, numbering about 50, who inflicted them with injuries.

One of the invaders was said to have fired a bullet from his gun which reportedly mowed down the Police Sergeant.

That was on the 14th of February,2022.

The invitation letter served on the police CSP, which he honoured Thursday in Abuja, is also extended to some politicians in Alausa who are suspected to be complicit in the matter.

The Alausa politicians, however, sent in a lawyer to represent them.

Meanwhile, the heat generated by the shooting and killing of the police Sergeant led to the in-depth investigations by carefully selected homicide detectives drawn from the Force Criminal Investigations Department (FCID) Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to investigate the remote causes of the bloodletting activities that led to the killing of a police officer who died in the line of duty during an unprovoked attack.

It was learnt that the hoodlums associated with land grabbers were ostensibly mobilized, haven misled some government officials at Alausa that undesirable elements were fomenting trouble at their community which apparently called for the mobilisation of the armed Task Force Officials.

The hoodlums were also said to have used the ensuing confusion to kidnap 13 others, whose whereabouts are still shrouded in mystery.Meanwhile, the top-rated homicide officers from the FCID, Abuja, in the course of their investigations, had made a handful of arrests.

It was in the course of finding out what really transpired that the Chairman, Task Force, Chief Superintendent become an interested party because he was said to have led a detachment of his officers with some government functionaries to the land the day of the mayhem.

Efforts to reach him were not successful as his mobile number was switched off.

However, an officer in his office who pleaded not to be named, said he had been summoned to Abuja this morning (Friday) by the office of the IGP over the Etegbin matter.

Chief Morof  Owonla, an interested party to the Adeoku family property, had during our investigation, said that 13 of his workers were abducted against their wish by the hoodlums and ferried away through a deep sea to an unknown destination.

The visibly shaken businessman said that the missing workers include the following: Ganiyu Ogunbakinde; Olumide Omoakin; Jamiu Osama; Azeez Oloye; Akeem; Taiwo; Dayo, Wasiu, whose surnames are not known.

He, however, added that others who escaped death by the whiskers sustained various degrees of  wound and were promptly rescued by the alerted policemen attached to Ajangbadi Division.

In-depth investigations revealed that there had been a lingering tussle between one Adeoku family and another family over the legal ownership of hectares of land in the community.

The matter was adjudicated upon by Justice O. Oshodi of the Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, who, after listening to the two parties, delivered judgment in favour of the Adeoku Family.