No fewer than one person was allegedly killed weekend by policemen while several others were seriously injured in Oro-Ago in Ifelodun Local Government Area of Kwara State over arrest of some community leaders.

The deceased was simply identified as Mrs. Bolatito Balogun, while one of the injured was identified as Mrs. Tope Ologemo, believed to be undergoing treatment in a private hospital in the community.

Investigations conducted by Newswatch Times revealed that the policemen reportedly arrived the community from Abuja, with a view to making arrests in connection with the recent clash between the Fulani/Bororo settlers and the community.

Apparently confirming the incident, the Oro-Ago Development Union (ODU) accused the police of complicity in the killing of the woman, who was said to have been shot in the market place.

Addressing a news conference yesterday in Ilorin, the State capital, spokesperson of the community and National President of ODU, Chief Richard Olushola, alleged that a team of policemen arrived the community weekend morning and shot the people indiscriminately.

Olushola said: “You would recall that we invited you here on April 30, 2015, to intimate you on the fracas between the Bororo settlers and Oro-Ago indigenes, resulting in two casualties; an indigene and a Bororo, while some people were wounded and hospitalised.

“Despite that the crisis was perpetrated by the Bororo settlers, three police officers from Abuja, led by one Sunday Umar, scooped on our community and arrested six people, who they took to Abuja. After spending over one week in police dungeon in Abuja, they were granted

bail and asked to report back after two weeks. They have up till this moment remained in the custody, without charging them to court.

“A more disturbing, nauseating, provoking and pathetic incident occurred in the community on Friday, June 12, 2015. Another set of four police officers, led by one Inspector Femi from IGP office and two Hilux patrol vans from the Divisional Police Office, Omu-Aran and the

Area Commander’s Office, Omu-Aran, fully armed, stormed the community as early as 7:00am and started indiscriminate shooting and arrest of our people.

“Their action was contrary to what they told our monarch, Oba Johnson Dada, the previous day, that they were in the community on a peace mission and to visit places where the first incident occurred as well as the place where one Seriki Bamo, who was the complainant to the office of IGP on the first incident, was killed about a week ago. He was killed between Oreke and Alabe in Ile-Ire district and not in Oro-Ago district during a purported argument among Bororos,” he claimed.