DPO gets 10 years in jail for killing subsidy protester.

Yesterday, dismissed Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Segun Fabunmi, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for manslaughter, following the fatal shooting of Ademola Ade in the January 9, 2012, Lagos fuel subsidy protest.

He was also found guilty of shooting and injuring 3 others. Fabunmi, who joined the police in 1984, was arraigned on May 5, 2013, by Lagos State on a 7-count of murder, attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm.
At the time of the incident, he was the DPO of Pen Cinema Police Station, Agege. Ade, a fashion designer, was shot in the thigh and was rejected at a hospital for want of a police report. He was then taken to Ikeja General Hospital but it was too late as he had bled to death.