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A Police Corporal identified as Sunday Idoko has reportedly been shot dead by unknown gunmen while escorting election result from Ipokia to Ilaro collation centre.
The incident, Tribune Online learned, happened around 8.00pm on Sunday night, when the hoodlums were said to have laid an ambush at Eredo area in Yewa South Local Government and shot at the vehicle conveying the election results.
The results of the House of Representatives for Ipokia/Yewa South federal constituency were being taken to Oronna Hall in Ilaro.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the incident.
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Oyeyemi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, said the hoodlums would be brought to book.
He said that the State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, had directed the Deputy Commissioner of Police in-charge of State Criminal Investigate and Intelligence Department, Wale Abase, to commence an investigation into the matter.
Oyeyemi, however, said that the election result was intact.
“The unfortunate incident happened on Sunday evening when he was escorting election results to Ilaro. The hoodlums laid ambushed on the vehicle conveying the result.
“We are on the trail of the hoodlums and we are going to arrest them,” he added.
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