There was confusion yesterday in Agege area of Lagos when military men besieged the Abattoir Police Station in the area after a task force officer from the station allegedly shot an army officer during rush hour traffic.

An eyewitness who spoke with newsmen said the army officer in trying to avoid the Monday morning rush hour traffic on the Agege- Oko-Oba road drove against the traffic and was immediately accosted by the Abattoir Police Station task force officers. According to a tricycle rider who witnessed the altercation, the army officer who was in his uniform was trying to come down from his car before one of the police officers dragged him out and slapped him.

He added that the state of confusion the incident threw the area drew the attention of the other police officers to the scene and as they struggled to pull the policeman off the army officer.

The gun of one of the policemen was said to have went off and hit the army officer’s leg, making lots of pedestrians to scamper for safety. It was reported that the wounded army officer had disarmed the policemen before calling on some of his colleagues to take him to the hospital. The task force officers had by then fled the scene.

In the ensuing milieu, the army officers consequently besieged the police station, obstructing traffic along the route. The presence of the fully kitted army officers made other policemen at the police station, residents and traders in the area to run away even though the soldiers were armed and did not fire any shot.

An effort to speak with the Divisional Police officer was not successful as his office was locked and the police station deserted by the police officers. (Leadership)