The Oyo State Police Command has denied the report that a police officer shot a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Ibadan.
Corps members had claimed that their colleague was allegedly shot in the head and chest by a policeman on stop and search routine at a new garage in Oluyole Local Government area of the state on Thursday.
However, spokesperson of the command, Adewale Osifeso, in a statement on Friday March 18, said that no single bullet was fired by the police at the scene of the alleged shooting.
According to the PPRO, a corps member who drove a Toyota Camry recklessly knocked down one policeman, Bright Agbadahun, while he was stopped by a team of policemen on stop and search duty.
Osifeso said the corps member refused to stop and in his bid to escape, he veered to his lane to face oncoming vehicles where he ran into a tricycle before the police caught up with him.
He added that corps member raised a false alarm that he had been shot and other corps members returning from Community Development Service who heard him started to protest and became unruly.
Upon seeing the policeman who was knocked down, the PPRO said the riotous corps members stabbed him on the cheek before he was rescued and taken away for treatment.
“The Oyo State Police Command wishes to dispel rumors making the rounds about a shooting incident involving a police officer and a National Youth Service Corps member as mischievous and a fictitious imagination of mischief agents,” the statement reads.
 in Ibadan. ){kind=link}