Police officer detained for fatally taking pictures 2-year-old woman

Crime

By Linda Ikeji
7 November 2026, 1:05 pm

The Lagos State Police Command has detained Assistant Superintendent of Police Omotayo Olajide after a taking pictures within the Nosamu space of Ajegunle left two-year-old Omole Taiwo useless and one other woman injured.

The taking pictures occurred between 9:30pm and 10pm on Thursday, November 5, in Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Area. Police stated the injured woman was receiving therapy and was in steady situation.

In an announcement on Saturday, police spokesperson SP Abimbola Adebisi stated Olajide, who was hooked up to Ajeromi Police Station, was instantly disarmed and detained. The State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) has taken over the case.

Adebisi stated preliminary findings confirmed that Olajide and different officers had responded to a misery name a couple of violent conflict between two teams recognized because the Nosamu Boys and the Alayabiagba Boys. The teams had been reportedly combating over toll assortment.

“The groups were said to have been armed with cutlasses and other dangerous weapons when the police team arrived,” Adebisi stated.

According to the spokesperson, Olajide discharged his firearm through the operation and the bullet struck each ladies. Initial studies instructed the officer could have been inebriated, however the police assertion didn’t affirm that allegation.

“Both victims were initially rushed to Ajeromi General Hospital, but the deceased was subsequently transferred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja, where she later died,” Adebisi stated.

Lagos State Commissioner of Police Tijani Fatai stated the officer’s detention and the switch of the case to the SCID had been supposed to make sure a radical and neutral investigation. He stated the findings would set up the circumstances of the taking pictures and decide what authorized or disciplinary motion ought to comply with.

Fatai visited Taiwo’s household to supply his condolences and guaranteed them that no officer discovered accountable could be shielded. He urged anybody with details about the taking pictures to contact the closest police station or the command’s Public Relations Department.