The killing of Mr Kolade Johnson, who was on Saturday, during league match, was shot dead by the Nigerian police, due to their suspect that he was a criminal, because he wears dreadlocks.
Social media has been on fire since on Sunday because of this indiscriminate killing of Mr Johnson.
Premium Times has been verified by a top police force, that three officers has been arrested in connection with the shooting, by the IGP, Mohammed Adamu.
“Three police officers have been arrested now in Lagos for the trouble they have caused the man’s family and Nigeria as a whole,” the police official said under strict anonymity because the police were still measuring how to control the message.
“An orderly room trial will be conducted against the officers, and, if found guilty, they will be summarily discharged from the police and charged to court for murder,” the officer said.
“We have learnt at the Force Headquarters that the officers might be more than three, and we have given the police commissioner in Lagos a strict instruction to make sure that all those involved are identified, and punished, no matter their ranks,”
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