The police have launched a manhunt for the killers of three policemen in one week in Lagos and Edo states.
They vowed to crack down on acts of jungle justice and the killing of their men.
An Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Augustine Osupayi, was killed in Lagos on Saturday by a mob.
Gunmen also killed a policeman at a quarry site in Edo on Thursday, days after residents set ablaze a police station, killing an officer and setting suspects ablaze, also in Edo State.
The police, in a statement by Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), deplored such savagery, saying it was a betrayal of justice and due process.
He said: “The Police condemn the act of arson which led to the burning of some suspects in police custody, and the subsequent setting ablaze of police barracks, patrol vans and the Divisional Police Station in Agenebode, Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State on Sunday, 13th of October 2024.
The group of motorcycle riders, Adejobi said, pounced on the driver, who was eventually rescued by the police.
He said the rescue did not go down well with the riders who descended on the police team and killed the ASP.
