Information reaching us at Checkout Magazine has it that a police inspector in Imo State killed a 27-year-old commercial motorcyclist for allegedly not wearing a face mask.
The incident happened around about 3pm on Tuesday at Banana Junction in the Orlu town of Imo State, PUNCH reports.
According to an eyewitness, a commercial motorcyclist who was carrying a passenger, was shot at a close range by one of the policemen on stop-and- search duty.
Another eyewitness told PUNCH that the inspector killed the victim after he refused to give him money for not wearing a face mask.
Checkout Magazine learnt that the inspector fled after he shot the motorcyclist dead, but people within went after him.
However, the state Commissioner of Police, Isaac Akinmodele, claims that the dead rider had attacked his men with a machete.
The CP, assured that the trigger-happy inspector and all the persons involved in the incident would be arrested.
