The Oodua Republic Mega rally held at Ojota area of Lagos on Saturday, was marred by the death of a 14-year-old girl alleged to have been hit by a stray bullet fired by the Police in a bid to disperse the protesters.
But in a swift reaction, the Lagos State Police command exonerated its personnel of culpability, stating categorically that no bullet was fired at the rally.
The lifeless body of the 14-year-old girl was reportedly discovered in front of her mother’s shop, about 15 to 20 meters from where the Police team was with her stomach and wrist reportedly perforated by a bullet.
Vanguard gathered that the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, CP Hakeem Odumosu, visited areas mapped out for the rally, by the organisers to ensure adherence to his earlier warning that the command would not entertain any rally in Lagos.
On arriving Ojota, he was said to have addressed some journalists who were on ground to monitor the situation. At that point, some protesters who posed as journalists gathered to hear the CP.
Immediately he left the scene, the protesters mobilised and started singing praises of Sunday Igboho and Yoruba slogans in solidarity of the Yoruba race.
Vanguard
