Police Shot Dead Student writing WAEC while Chasing Yahoo Boy in Ibadan

 

A Male Student writing the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination being organised by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has been hit with a stray bullet in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.

The Stray bullet allegedly from a police officer while pursuing the suspected ‘Yahoo boy’ hit the deceased student who was heading to the examination centre.

The tragic incident occurred along Gbagi market road in the Egbeda Local Government Area of the metropolis.

Eyewitness revealed that the boy was on a motorcycle with his father and twin brother when the incident struck.

One of the sources, simply identified as Ajani, said, “A police officer opened fire while chasing a fleeing vehicle. One of the bullets reportedly hit the student. The student was riding on a motorcycle with his father and twin brother when the tragedy happened.”

Meanwhile, Angry youths took the student’s lifeless body to the state Secretariat, Agodi, Ibadan, to demand justice and called for the urgent intervention of Governor Seyi Makinde.

The deceased body has been deposited at Adeoyo Hospital morgue.

However, The State Government and the Police Authority are yet to speak on the incident.