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Oyo Police Command Begins Investigation Into Sunday Morning Murder Incident In Ibadan

The Oyo State Police Command has commenced immediate inquiry into the Bodija Murder incident that occurred during the early hours of Sunday, 02/02/25

Preliminary Investigation reveals that a yet to be identified man was chased and shot dead few blocks away from the popular lounge located at Bodija, Ibadan.

This is contained in a statement by the command’s PPRO, Adewale Osifeso on Sunday.

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It says “Also worthy of note, is that the swift presence of Police at the scene minutes after it was reported was to maintain law and order and not to further increase the pandemonium as reported by some spaces on social media where they claimed that the Police accidentally shot and killed an onlooker (Student) during the dispersal.

“Emphatically, there were no killings by the Police nor recorded death of any Student before, during and after the lawful dispersal of onlookers from the scene of crime.

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“In furtherance of the above the case has since been refered to the Homicidal section of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) Iyaganku with a Deputy Commissioner of Police leading the investigation has directed by the Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Police Command, CP Sonubi Ayodele,psc.

Meanwhile normalcy has since returned to the area with adequate deployment of operational and intelligence Command assets to prevent an hijack of the scene by hoodlums.

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