An officer of the Nigeria Immigration Service, identified simply as Lamba, is accused of killing one Jacob Bamgbola for refusing to give him N200 in bribe.
This is according to Punchng, saying the incident happened in Idigbo community, Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State.
Bamgbola was said to be conveying his niece on a motorcycle within the community when some immigration officers manning a checkpoint along the Ijowun end of the Idiroko Expressway demanded N200 before allowing him to continue his journey.
He was said to have disobliged them, with the ensuing disagreement culminating in one of the officers by the name, Lamba, shooting him dead.
“Bamgbola went to carry his sister’s daughter and on his way back, he met immigration officers on the road. Those officers are always there at the checkpoint. They stopped him and wanted to collect N200 from him but he refused.
“He told them that he is a son of Otun village and why should he pay them anything. After he left, he complained to some youths and the youths mobilised themselves to the Baale’s house to register their grievances over the activities of the officers.
“But within some minutes, the immigration officers came in a van and while the Baale was trying to calm the situation, they started shooting and in the process, one of them known as Lamba shot Bamgbola. The youths were rushing Bamgbola to the hospital when he died,” an unnamed source told the paper.
