But for the timely intervention of community leaders of the Kajola community in the Odigbo council area of Ondo State, the police station and officers there would have been set ablaze by irate youths protesting the killing of a community chief (baale) and two others at a police checkpoint. The mob alleged that the police officers in the community were in the habit of extorting and harassing residents along the Ijebu Ode/Ore expressway. The youths, who, in their hundreds, stormed the police station, alleged that the officers at the checkpoint were responsible for the death of the three victims due