The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the killing of Taiwo Oyekanmi, the Director of Finance in the Ogun State governor’s office.
The Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alamutu, who confirmed the incident to DAILY POSTand also admitted that Oyekanmi was killed.
“This afternoon, the accountant, the Director of Finance, with the driver and one other person left for a bank to make some withdrawal,” he said.
It was gathered that the accountant was waylaid and shot dead on the popular Kuto Bridge in Abeokuta, less than three kilometres from a bank where he had withdrawn a large sum of money for government use.
Eyewitnesses say the robbers used sledgehammer to break the bullion van door and went away with the government’s money.