Men dressed in Army uniform have set ablaze Ogijo police station in Ogun State over an alleged assault on a soldier by some policemen.
The attackers wounded both police officers and civilians around the vicinity.
The incident scared passersby who scampered for safety all through the period the
A source identified the attackers as soldiers from 174 Battalion Odugunyan in Ikorodu, Lagos, adding that they had come there for a reprisal following an earlier altercation between a policeman and a soldier.
The policeman reportedly stabbed the soldier in his chest during the altercation.
The soldiers were said to have been angered by the action of the policeman who later sought refuge in Ogijo police station.
“Our station is under heavy assault by men of the Nigerian Army from 174 Battalion Odogunyan. They have set the station on fire due to an earlier quarrel between a mobile policeman and a soldier. In fact, earlier today a soldier and the mobile policeman engaged themselves in physical combat, leading to the mobile policeman overpowering the soldier with a leather punch,” the source said.
It is yet unclear if police personnel were attacked, injured, and killed during the attack on the station
Lagos State Police spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, tweeted that there was unrest at Ogijo, Ogun State, though very close to Ikorodu, Lagos.
Part of the tweet reads: “Our officers are on alert and would not allow any breakdown of law and order within Lagos State.*
As at the time of this report, there has been no official comments from the authorities of the military.
