More details have emerged on the report that a police officer in Kwara State, Olalere Michael, on Thursday committed suicide after shooting his girlfriend, identified simply as Tosin to death on the premises of a private school located on Agba Dam Housing Estate, Gaa Akanbi, in the Ilorin area of Kwara State.
Olalere Micheal is a Sergeant with the Nigeria Police Force, his tag number was F/NO 497093.
According to a verified source that pleaded anonymity to News Bulletin Nigeria, the sad incident is a case of a domestic violence that went haywire or as a case of love gone sour. It is not clear if the case could be classified as police brutality.
The killer-cop, Olalere Michael was from Offa, headquarters of Offa local government area, while Bamidele Oluwatosin Cicilia was from Osi, Ekiti local government area, both in Kwara State.
Tosin studied Accounting in Kwara State Polytechnic before she proceeded to The Federal Polytechnic, Offa, to study the same discipline in 2017. She however did not complete her Higher National Diploma programme in the institution.
As at the time of her death, Tosin Cicilia was a single mother of a three-year-old child and has at different times complained to close friends about the domestic violence she suffered in her relationship with Olalere.
On his part, Micheal Olalere is a married man with two beautiful daughters. He was also attached to the Kwara State Government House.
The Thursday misunderstanding that resulted in the death of duo was for the umpteenth time; it was gathered that that was neither the first nor the second time.
The policeman has earlier attempted attacking his lover but she fled.
In a bid to carry out his plan, News Bulletin Nigeria gathered that the policemen, who was angered by the misunderstanding between him and his lover, visited the family house of his lover’s friend on Erin Ile Road, Gaa Akanbi, Ilorin, to attack Tosin with a cutlass.
Residents and business owners in the area claim that the policeman who had been pursuing his sweetheart caught up with her on the school grounds and killed her with an AK-47 rifle.
According to information provided by our correspondent, the deceased lover’s daughter was already at the school when the police sergeant took advantage of the opportunity to commit the crime there at around 8am.
The police sergeant shot Tosin three times in the chest, corked the weapon, raised the rifle vertically off the ground, pointed it at his throat, and pulled the trigger with his leg, blowing his head off in the process. The cop passed away instantly.
Reacting, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Okasanmi Ajayi, who confirmed the development in a statement, said policemen detailed to the scene of the attack evacuated the corpses.
In the statement titled, ‘RE: KILLING OF A LADY AND SELF BY A POLICE SERGEANT IN ILORIN’, Ajayi described the incident as a case of love gone sour, adding that it had nothing to do with police brutality.
The statement read, “Around 08.05am on March 2, 2023, information reached the command that a man in police uniform later identified by his uniform and name tag F/NO 497093 as Sergeant Olalere Michael later known to be attached to 15 PMF, Ilorin, went to the Chapel of Redemption, Agba Dam Housing Estate in Ilorin, and shot and killed a yet-to-be-identified lady, then shot himself in the head and died.
“Immediately after the information got to the command, the state Commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, dispatched a team of policemen and detectives to the scene, where the corpses were recovered and deposited at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, where the bodies were certified dead.
“The command wishes to state clearly that the deadly incident was an aftermath of love gone sour and that it has nothing to do with police brutality. Meanwhile, investigation of this unfortunate incident is in progress, and the report of the investigation will be made public as soon as it is ready.”
When our correspondent visited Tosin’s family house, her elder sister, whose shop is located close to the scene of the attack, refused to speak on the sad incident that led to the death of her sister.
