DPOs Disagree At Enquiry Over Share/Tsaragi Clash
Two Divisional Police Officers (DPO) who were in charge of Share and Tsaragi during the December 2015 clash between the two communities yesterday disagreed over their accounts of the cause of the crisis.
The two DPOs, Isaac Baba, who served as DP0 Tsaragi in Edu local government, and Mr. Simon Ayinoko, who served as DPO, Share in Ifelodun local government area.
The DPOs gave different versions of the crisis before the commission even as the Area Commander of Bode Saadu, Mr. Abdulazeez Obansa, under which the duo had served, said the police maintained "neutrality" in wading into in the matter.
While the DPO, Share, told the judicial commission of inquiry probing the crisis that youths from Share were only cutting down neem trees surrounding LGEA Primary school in the area, his counterpart from Tsaragi, claimed that men from Share actually destroyed some economic trees on a disputed portion of land between the two communities.
Baba, who was the third witness taken by the commission at its resumed sitting yesterday, presented photographs indicating an attack on him allegedly by Share youths whom he claimed refused to yield to pleas by the DPO Share to stop cutting the trees in the interest of peace.
He tendered two pictures of the unit commander, Police Mobile Force 15, Ilorin, Mr. Umar Sandah, as well as those of three other mobile policemen who were shot during the crisis.
Earlier, the DPO Share, Simon Ayinoko, had told the commission that the best way to stop further crisis between the two communities was for government to take over the disputed area.
In his testimony, the Area commander said six policemen were seriously injured while attempting to stop the exchange of gunfire between the two communities. "I wouldn't know whether the firing came from Share or Tsaragi, but the two were armed," he said.
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