By Akinwale Kasali
Olumide Olushola, 21, has narrated the circumstances which led to his grissly crushing a Police Sergeant to death after he had knocked him down.
Olumide, a phone seller crushed Sergeant, Johnson Okediji, to death in a most horrendous manner during a stop-and-search operation in the Egbeda area of Lagos State.
However, when paraded at the Lagos State Police Command headquarters in Ikeja on Monday, he vehemently denied that he deliberately hit the officer.
According to him, the brakes of the Lexus ES 350 which he was driving failed him.
During a press briefing, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Tijani, said the incident took place around 2.20pm on Saturday, September 26, 2026, along Olugbede Street, Egbeda.
The CP said that police officers on stop-and-search duty had flagged down the Lexus, with registration number FKJ 223 KX, driven by Olushola. However, the CP said, Olushola allegedly sped off when Sergeant Okediji approached the driver’s side, and knocked down the officer in the process.
The CP: “The driver initially stopped but suddenly sped off as Sergeant Johnson Okediji approached the driver’s side. The officer was knocked down and dragged underneath the vehicle for several metres despite repeated attempts by police officers and passers-by to make the driver stop.
“The driver was eventually chased and arrested. The officer sustained multiple fractures and serious head injuries.”
The Sergeant, the CP said, was rushed to a nearby hospital and later referred to the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
But speaking during his parade, Olushola vehemently denied that he deliberately knocked down the Sergeant, and insisted that the vehicle’s brakes failed.
According to him, he had seen the Policemen ahead and was preparing to stop when the Sergeant moved in front of his vehicle. It was then that the vehicle hit the officer and dragged him as he struggled to bring it to a halt.
He said: “I was trying to stop the vehicle. The vehicle didn’t stop. That’s when the vehicle hit another vehicle in front. That’s when I fell down with the person sitting next to me.
“I have been using the Lexus for about a month and had taken it to a mechanic a day before the incident after noticing problems with the brakes.
“I carried the vehicle to the mechanic the day before that day. I told the mechanic to change all the brake pads in the vehicle, and the mechanic told me he had changed all the brake pads.
“But I noticed that the brake was still slipping after buying fuel on the day of the incident. I planned to return the vehicle to the mechanic later that day.
“I have a lot of regrets in my mind about hitting an officer of the law. I am very pained about that.”
The vehicle, Olushola also said was his mother’s, who acquired it in August.
He deals in phones, laptops and their gadgets.
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