Two Nigerian Police escorts attached to the 2-car convoy of popular herbal manufacturer, Fatai Yusuf, widely known as Oko Oloyun have been undergoing questioning by the Oyo police command.
This follows the murder of Yusuf, by some unknown gunmen on Thursday on his way to Iseyin, Oyo state.
This was revealed in a statement released on Friday by the spokesperson of Oyo State Police Command, Olugbenga Fadeyi.
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The statement also stated that some staff of the deceased are being questioned by a team of detectives from the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department.
The statement reads;
The Commissioner of Police, Shina Olukolu, seizes this opportunity to appeal to any member of the public with credible information not to hesitate in passing same to the Oyo State Police Command to assist in the detection of the crime and apprehension of the offenders.
The police has however revealed that there is a twist to the killing, revealing that;
An interesting twist to the story was that the deceased probably had earlier detected an alleged bookkeeping records fraud in his Lagos office which subsequently allegedly led to the burning/destruction of some financial/bookkeeping records.
Fadeyi in the statement narrated the incident which reads;
The 2-man armed escorts of Policemen protecting the deceased engaged the assailants, but they managed to escape back into the forest after a single shot had hit the deceased who died later of his bullet injuries.
A report was received by the Divisional Police Officer, DPO Igbo-ora that around Akeroro Area on the Abeokuta/Igbo-ora/Iseyin road, the 2-car convoy of the deceased was allegedly ambushed shortly after passing through five different Police Stop and Search teams along the route by yet to be identified assailants who fired at the moving vehicles on the road from the thick forest.
