Uneasy calm on Monday pervaded the Sunshine state – Ondo as one of the policemen attached to a security checkpoint in Uso, along Akure/Owo Federal Highway allegedly shot and killed a truck driver.
Eyewitnesses disclosed that the incident occurred after the driver who was said to be travelling to Abuja was engaged in a heated argument with the policemen at the checkpoint.
This, according to them angered one of the policemen who then shot the driver on the head at close range after which he died on the spot.
Consequently, other tanker drivers, began to protest, causing gridlock on the highway.
It, however, took the intervention of a detachment of policemen from the command to quell the unrest.
The spokesperson of the Ondo State Police Command, SP Femi Joseph, has also confirmed the incident.
SP Femi informed that investigations into the incident have since commenced.
