Police Probes the Shooting of Azeez Ijaduade

Police are investigating the shooting of a Nollywood director, Azeez Ijaduade at a hotel in Iperu Remo in Ogun State.

The movie director and his movie crew were shooting a movie at Napoli hotel on Saturday night, when he was hit in the neck by gunshots fired by a police officer.

The police officer was attached to a Chinese official, who was attending an end of the year party, organized by Braimog company limited in Iperu Remo, when he fired gunshots into the air.

Spokesperson of the State Police Command, Omolola Odutola, confirming the incident, said the gunshots which hit the Nollywood director was an accidental discharge.

The Nollywood director was rushed to the Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilishan Remo, and his condition, according to the police image maker, was stable.

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The State Police Commissioner, Abiodun Alamutu on Sunday morning, visited him in the surgical ward of the hospital.

However, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Omolola Odutola, said in an exclusive chat with PUNCH Online, Sunday morning, that one of its officers attached to the executives of Bramajaj Company Limited, Ogere Remo, accidentally discharged a shot from his rifle” during the end-of-year party of the company at a hotel in Iperu.

Meanwhile, Ijaduade, his crew members, and other actors were said to be having a movie shoot at the same hotel when the shot hit the Nollywood actor’s neck.

Police further disclosed that the actor had been rushed to the hospital, where he was said to be currently responding to treatment.

The victim is currently in a stable condition, Odutola said.