The Kwara State Police Command has reacted to an officer, Sergeant Olalere Michael killing his girlfriend, simply identified as Tosin, and himself.
Olalere, a mobile police officer attached to Kwara State Government House on Thursday morning shot the mother of one and himself to death near the gate of a private school located at Agba Dam Housing Estate, Gaa Akanbi, Ilorin.
The incident set tongues wagging in the metropolis, with different versions of its cause in circulation
Weighing in on the matter, the State Police Command in a statement by its Spokesman, Okasanmi Ajayi, dispelled any insinuation of Police brutality.
Ajayi in the remark entitled, ‘RE: KILLING OF A LADY AND SELF BY A POLICE SERGEANT IN ILORIN’, shed some light on the incident.
He wrote: “At about 08:05 hours of March 2, 2023, information reached the command that a man in police uniform was later identified by his uniform and name tag as F/NO 497093. Sergeant Olalere Michael “Male” later known to be attached to 15 PMF, Ilorin went to the Chapel of Redemption Agba Dam housing estate in Ilorin and shot and killed a yet-to-be-identified lady, then shot himself in the head and died.
“Immediately after the information got to the command, the Commissioner of Police for Kwara State, CP Paul Odama, psc+, dispatched a team of policemen and detectives to the scene, where the corpses were recovered and deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, where the bodies were certified dead.
“The command wishes to state clearly that the deadly incident was an aftermath of love gone sour and that it has nothing to do with police brutality.
“Meanwhile, investigation of this unfortunate incident is in progress, and the report of the investigation will be made public as soon as it is ready.”
