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Nigerian Police Parade Six Members Of Mob Which Allegedly Killed Lagos Sound Engineer

David was lynched and burnt, allegedly by some people due to a misunderstanding with a commercial motorcyclist, popularly called Okada rider, over N100.

The Lagos State command of the Nigeria Police Force, on Friday, paraded six persons alleged to be among the mob which lynched and burnt a sound engineer, David Imoh.
David was lynched and burnt, allegedly by some people due to a misunderstanding with a commercial motorcyclist, popularly called Okada rider, over N100.

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SaharaReporters had reported the arrest of some suspects in connection to the gruesome murder of the sound engineer in the area.
On Friday, the paraded suspects, including the bike rider, were; Dahiru Ayuba, a woman, Susan Moses, other motorcyclists, Christopher Dauda, Joseph Tella, and Sunday Azi as well as an alleged mastermind Chigozie Anthony.
They were paraded with seven other suspects arrested in the last one month for armed robbery, cultism, unlawful possession of firearms offences.
Briefing reporters on the murder incident, the Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, said two people identified as Frank Olatunji and Philip Balogun had boarded Dahiru's bike and on disembarking at Studio 24, a quarrel ensued over bike fare.
Olatunji and Balogun had reportedly invited Imoh to mediate; unfortunately, he was attacked, killed and set ablaze.
The CP said the suspects would be charged to court.
He assured that the security of lives and property of residents of Lagos State would continue to be at the top of his policing vision for the state.