Policeman shoots 34-yr-old man over N2,000 on may 26, 2015

YENAGOA—A mobile policeman in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State,
has shot a 34-year-old indigene of Bauchi State, Adamu
Mohammed, over an argument on N2,000 unpaid fees for a
menial job.
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.