Spokesperson for the state command of the NSCDC, Kehinde Dada, told newsmen that there would be a post-mortem on the bodies of Gabriel Ajaji and Innocent Akegbe.
But she said she could not reveal much since the case was being handled by her superiors at the headquarters in Abuja ('Her Oga At The Top').
Ajaji and Akegbe, who were officers in the Anti-Vandalism Squad of the NSCDC, lost their lives after a successful raid and arrest of some suspects at a site of an NNPC installation in Ikorodu.
Ever since that incident occurred, the Lagos State Police Command and the NSCDC have been drawn in a battle of claims and counter-claims.
The Police still claims they have no idea how the two NSCDC officials were killed since their own men were victims in the said incident.
However, a ranking police officer at the State Criminal Investigation Department, Yaba, said that a ballistic test, which would be carried out as part of the police investigation, would determine who is speaking the truth.
The officer who preferred not to be named for obvious reasons said,
"This matter is simple. Everybody will continue to blame the police and because the NSCDC needs someone to blame for the death of their men, they too will continue to tell the world the two men were killed by policemen.
"But why continue all the allegations when a simple ballistic test on the bullets recovered from the bodies of the two officials can be tested and see if it belonged to a police gun? Let the NSCDC cooperate with our investigation, and the truth will come out."
Meanwhile the bodies of the slain NSCD operatives have been deposited at the Military Hospital mortuary, Yaba, pending the post-mortem.
The injured officials are also receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital.
Source: The Punch
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