A mobile policeman in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State,
allegedly shot a 34-year-old Adamu Mohammed, over an
argument of N2,000 unpaid fees for a menial job.
According to Mohammed's family, the victim was shot
last Tuesday by the mobile policeman after an argument
with a woman who hired him to clear a portion of land
close to her home at Erepa Road and dumped at the
Federal Medical Centre.
Residents who claimed to have witnessed the incident,
said the shooting took place after an argument ensued
with the woman over the amount to pay for the job and
Mohammed's squabble with a Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps, NSCDC, officer.
They said the policeman shot him in the thigh to
demobilise him.
Mohammed, who refused to file a formal
complaint against the policeman for fear of retaliation
accused the woman who awarded him the menial job of
cheating.
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 on guard duty at the residence of the
unidentified senior officer, pleaded with Mohammed's
family to give them time to raise money for his treatment
and leave out formal complaint against them.
Mohammed, according to the family, has since been
taken to Bauchi for traditional treatment.
When the spokesman of the state Police Command,
Asimi Butswat, was contacted for comments, he 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.
Vanguard.
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