{"id":9481,"date":"2018-06-02T12:39:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T12:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9481"},"modified":"2018-06-02T12:39:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T12:39:33","slug":"9481","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9481","title":{"rendered":"Bamidele&#8217;s shooter in Ekiti was Lagos off-duty cop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekiti State Police Command has said that the policeman who shot and injured fromer House of Representatives member, Mr. Bamidele Opeyemi, is one of its own, and not fake as is being speculated.<br \/>\nIn fact, he was on illegal duty away from his post at an Ikeja Bank in Lagos. He acted as an escort to an Ekiti politician who was at the ill-fated rally and has been questioned by the Ekiti Police, according to its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Caleb Ikechukwu.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9486\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ekiti-rally6-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9488\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9488\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/ekiti-1-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The policeman that shot Opeyemi beaten black and blue.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nHis words: \u201cHe\u2019s not a fake policeman, he\u2019s our officer but he was on illegal duty in Ekiti State.<br \/>\n\u201cHe was an officer posted as Guard at a Bank in Ikeja, Lagos but he illegally escorted a Politician to Ekiti State on illegal duty.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Politician came from Lagos to attend the rally. The politician has also been quizzed.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Police position runs counter to that of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti State which is pointing in the direction Governor Ayo Fayose.<br \/>\nOpeyemi is still in hospital with others like\u00a0Olabode Joshua, Olanrewaju Gbenga, Adebayo Ogunjemilehin, Ogunmodede Oluwole and Alex Adeleye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ekiti State Police Command has said that the policeman who shot and injured fromer House of Representatives member, Mr. Bamidele Opeyemi, is one of its own, and not fake as is being speculated. In fact, he was on illegal duty away from his post at an Ikeja Bank in Lagos. He acted as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}