Two policemen drown while chasing weed smokers in Oyo

Oparemi Goke and Ogunyemi Mujeeb, two newly recruited Constables of the Durbar Police station in Oyo, and a member of the Discipline Intelligent Group of Nigeria (DIGON) have met their untimely death while chasing weed smokers. 

The security operatives drowned around 7:30pm on Sunday July 12, 2020, at Awerintu river, Oke Eletu, while chasing the hoodlums who ran towards a bridge washed away by flood.

The policemen had followed one of the hoodlums into a water he jumped into but got swallowed by mud. Their corpses were recovered in the late hours of same day.