The testimony was shocking. Felix Lucky, a driver, told the Lagos Judicial Panel of Inquiry that a police officer in Ilasan Police Division, Jakande Estate in Lekki, allegedly shot his brother and took the him away six months after making the threat.
The panel listened with rapt attention as lucky gave a detail account of what transpired in the panel sitting of December 11.
Lucky said his younger brother, Paul Lucky, was the victim, killed allegedly by a police officer he identified as John Dagbo.
He said his brother, a driver cum security personnel in the Jakande Estate, had on April 2, involved with some disagreement with Dagbo.
He explained: “On April 2, my brother came home with injuries around his neck at about round 2 a.m. while doing his vigilante work in the estate. He told me they saw a man riding a bicycle. They shined their torchlight to stop the person and later saw that he was a police officer.”
He said the police officer turned out to be Dagbo, who became offended that they shone their flashlight at him.
“From there, an argument occurred where my brother was wounded on his neck, and his clothes torn. The officer also seized his torchlight and cutlass he was using,” he said.
Lucky told the panel members that he visited the station in the morning to see the officer. It was then he said Dagbo threatened to kill his brother.
“That your stubborn brother, I go kill am one day,” Lucky quoted Dagbo as saying.
He said on October 20, the day of the Lekki shooting, he was in his house at Jakande Estate when a friend told him that Dagbo had shot his brother.
“He was shot along the street and there was a crowd. After shooting him, he was dragged to the police station,” he said.
He said after his brother was shot, he was still alive because the eye witnesses at the scene told him that his brother was talking and even gave his phone to someone before he was taken away.
He said when he went to the police station along with the Community Development Association (CDA) chairman in the estate, and members, they were all chased away by officers.
“We went there on three occasions but they did not allow us in. Sergeant Dagbo said on one of the days that if I cross a particular place, he would kill me,” Lucky said.
He said the police have refused to release his brother’s corpse.
He asked that Dagbo be brought to book and the police release his brother’s corpse. He also asked for compensation for the loss his family has suffered.
