Police kill two civil defence officers, release vandals + photograph

In what could be described as a commando attack, officers and men of the Nigeria Police ambushed and opened fire on men of the Anti-Vandals Squad of the Lagos State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, killing two of them on the spot while others escaped with gunshot wounds.
The incident happened in Ikorodu area of Lagos State.
It happened at about 3am on Wednesday while the officers and men of the NSCDC were returning from a successful anti-vandal operation where vandals were arrested along with their exhibits.
According to the eyewitness account, the vandals, suspected to be policemen in mufti, made calls to their police collaborators for support as they could not overwhelm the anti-vandals team of the corps.
Immediately the police got wind of the information, they allegedly laid siege for the corps and open fire on the NSCDC patrol vehicle, killing two while others scampered for their lives with gunshot wounds.
The vandals were released immediately by the police.
On seeing that it was the police, the men of the corps refused to fire a single shot from their riffles but could only express shock at a sister agency that ordinarily should assist them in fighting crime. The identity card of one of the policemen, Sunday Gabriel, an Inspector, was recovered from the scene of the shooting.
But the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Umar Manko, said the police is not at war with any security agency.
Manko said: “There was a problem between our officials and the Civil Defence Corps this morning but the situation has been brought under control.
“The Civil Defence Corps arrested policemen and detained them.
“The policemen were on mufti.
“The situation has been resolved.”