According to the family of Mohammed, who resides along the
Bay Bridge Road area of Yenagoa, the state capital, the victim was shot last
Tuesday at Erepa Road and dumped at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC.
While Mohammed’s family claimed he was shot by the mobile
policeman after argument with the woman who engaged him for the clearing of a
portion of land close to her home at Erepa Road, residents who claimed to have
witnessed the incident, said after the argument with the woman over the right sum to pay for the job
and Mohammed’s squabble with a Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC,
officer, the policeman shot him in the thigh to demobilise him.
Mohammed, who refused to file a formal complaint at the
Police Station over fear of further harm by other policemen, accused the woman
who awarded him the menial job of cheating.
Victim’s story
Mohammed said: “We agreed on N3,000. But after I finished the
work, she said she will pay N1,000. I got angry and she called in some
policemen guarding the home of a senior police officer on Erepa Road.
“The first person that came was a Civil Defence man and he
claimed I stabbed him, and the mobile policeman, without asking questions, shot
me in the thigh.”
The policemen, about three, on guard duty at the residence of
the unidentified senior officer, pleaded with Mohammed’s family to allow them
raise money for his treatment and leave out formal complaint against them.
Meanwhile, Mohammed, according to the family, has been taken
to Bauchi for traditional treatment.
Contacted, spokesman of the state Police Command, Asimi
Butswat, said though he was not aware of any formal complaint by the purported
victim, the action of the victim was suspicious and has the semblance of an
armed robbery suspect.
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