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| late ADANSON BELLO and his wife Mrs MODINATU BELLO |
Adamson Bello, a
60-year-old deejay was killed last
Sunday by a stray bullet fired by a policeman attached to the Okokomaiko Police
Division. Lagos state,while he was sitting in front of his house.
The eye witness said,
“Baba Fasilat (Adamson) was sitting in front of a house a few meters away from
the hotel which was being guarded by a team of policemen. Suddenly, one of the
policemen fired a shot, for reasons nobody could explain.''
“Unfortunately, Baba
Fasilat was hit in the chest. Immediately people saw what had happened, there
was confusion.
“Other police officers
started shooting into the air to scare people away and pave the way for their
escape.”
Modinatu also narrated
that , “I had just arrived from Ondo that Sunday. I prepared pounded yam for
him and later, he said he wanted to stroll out to the other street where our
son, Afeez, also a deejay, had a musical engagement.
“A few minutes later,
Afeez rushed in and started screaming that his dad had been hit by a police
stray bullet.
“I rushed to the scene.
Everybody had fled. Even the police team that wreaked the havoc had deserted
the area. It was only my husband on the ground in a pool of blood. Later, neighbors helped me and we took him to a hospital around here, but he was
rejected because there was no police report to explain the gunshot wound.”
Modinatu said she rushed
to the police station in-company of her neighbor to obtained report she needed
to present at the hospital for her husband treatment but she alleged that policemen
on duty locked the gate and trained their guns at them.
She said, “We told them
we had not come to fight, but needed a police report. They asked me to come in
and took my statements. But despite the statement, I was not given any police report.
After pleading with them and getting no positive response, we decided to take
our chances. My husband died when we got to the Badagry General Hospital.”
Modinatu said since the
incident, nobody at the station had visited the family, despite the fact that
the family had reported the case there.
She said, “The
Divisional Police Officer is aware that the shot was fired by a policeman
guarding South Bound Hotel. I plead with relevant authorities in the police to
step into this matter. My husband must not die in vain. I want justice.”
The Police Public
Relations Officer, Ngozi Braide said,.“The suspect has been arrested and is
currently in detention as we speak. The matter has also been transferred to the
SCID, Yaba for investigation,” Braide said.
Nigeria police are just
blood thirsty set of people. It is only in Nigeria that stacked illiterate were
employed in the security job. A sensitive and highly intelligent job like police
are meant to be given to a minimum Secondary school certificate holder with
minimum of 5 credit pass including English.
At the same time , these
officer needed to be examined frequently by the team of Psychologist to ascertaining their state of mind. How will you be able to relate to an officer
that is already drunk early in the morning ? The next question is that what is
the job of the Divisional police Officer even?
In addition,is our police
are now private security that they will be on guard at private business operative This is another mis-appropriate of tax payer money.....the people
that suppose to secure the life and property are now the one destroying it. I
am sorry for my country.
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