30-YEAR OLD FIRST-CLASS ECONOMICS GRADUATE KILLED BY POLICE IN KADUNA

A trigger happy police constable, identified as Alex Okpe, has shot a  30-year-old first class graduate of Economics from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Moses Murtala Aminu, has been shot dead by a policeman.

 According to an eyewitness , who is also a friend of the deceased said ‘’ that the police constable identified as Alex Okpe was beating up his(Murtala’s) girlfriend outside the venue of the party and when Murtala tried to intervene, he got angry and pulled out his gun from his jeans trousers and fired straight into his heart’’.

‘’After Murtala was shot dead, the police constable then fired again in the air twice to scare the people around and escaped on his motorcycle.’’ He added.

  Alex Okpe,  who is presently serving  at Kakuri Police Station but deployed to guard Nigerian Brewries Plc,was later tracked down and arrested by officers from Barnawa Police Division after the case was reported there.

Femi Adenaike, Kaduna State Police Commissioner who confirmed the incident said, ‘’ it was true Alex Okpe was arrested and during interrogation confessed to have killed Murtala Aminu at a party venue.’’ and added that “The suspect is in the cell and we have commenced investigation. And if he is found guilty, we will give him an in-house trial and summary dismissal so that he can face the law for homicide,” the state police boss said.
and urged the family of the deceased to remain calm as the police are doing everything possible to investigate the case and ensure justice is done.

The blind father of the late Muritala, Mohammed Jimoh, said that as a Muslim he’s taught to accept the death of his son and bread winner as an act of God. But added
that if at all his son had to die, it should not be in the hands of a policeman who should have been responsible for protecting him.
“Yes my son a first class economist for that matter and our hope, is dead, but I want justice done in this case,”

The suspect who claimed in his statement that he fired at Muritala in “self defence” when he and his friends were trying fight him over his girlfriend;  shows that some of our police are trigger happy to kill anybody that dare to argue with them or speaking grammar with them. Something drastic need to be done or else.......