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Nigeria: Police, Community Disagree Over Casualty Figure
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This Day (Lagos)
25 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Tunde Sanni
Ibadan
The Ogbomoso community and the police in the Oyo State command yesterday sharply disagreed on the number of casualties in the pandemonium that greeted the sale of a mosque in the community.
Peace has however returned to the community.
Police sources in Ogbomoso had on Wednesday confirmed the death of two persons but residents of the troubled area insisted that seven people lost their lives during the fracas when the rival groups within the community clashed with each other.
But by Thursday, the Police Public Relations Officer in charge of the state command, Miss Olabisi Okuwobi, confirmed on phone that only one person loss his life during the bloody clash because one of the two men who were reported dead, was revived later at the hospital.
Okuwobi, however, claimed that all parties in the mayhem had laid down their arms.
She said nobody has so far been arrested by the police over the matter but warned that anyone who is linked directly or indirectly to the crisis would not be spared
She said, "We are on top of the situation now and we are restoring peace there currently. We learnt that two persons were killed in the crisis.
"It is not correct that the police did shoot at anyone. It was the people themselves that attacked each other. We learnt that some who were wounded have been taken to hospitals, " he said.
Normal businesses and communal services were going on uninterrupted on Thursday when THISDAY visited the community while pockets of policemen were sighted in strategic locations ensuring law and order.Trouble reportedly started when rumours spread among the Hausa community that the Sarkin Hausawa, Alhaji Abdulsalam Bala had allegedly sold the community mosque to a medical doctor whose hospital is located behind the mosque.
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Our correspondent reported that the owner of the Shalom Hospital simply identified as Dr. Amoo, allegedly bought the mosque and would demolish it before he would erect another building there.
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