Adebayo Adenrele
Five persons have been hospitalized after a trigger-happy officer of the Ekiti State Agro Marshals on Thursday fired shots in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital.
It was gathered that the incident happened at Ekute area of Ado Ekiti between five and six O’clock in the evening.
According to some of the victims and passers-by, the Agro Marshals vehicle conveying some officers was held in the mild traffic congestion on the road as a result of ceremony stationed in the area.
However, it was alleged that one of the officers jumped down from the vehicle to clear the road and shot the air in the process while some of the bullets strayed and hit the victims among whom were his colleagues.
However, while speaking with newsmen at the Police Clinic in Ado Ekiti, two officers who were hit by the bullets claimed that it was an accidental discharge.
The Commandant of the Agro Marshall Corps, Olamide Oni declined comment when he came to police clinic to check on the victims.
But from his conversation with the police, Oni confirmed that the concerned officer had been arrested and would be handed over to the police for proper investigation.