By Nelson Amaobi Osuala
26th of May 2015, 04:39pm
What do we call this? Why is it that some of this our Security personnel (especially those of the Police force) are not disciplined?
In foreign countries like the US ( please don’t ask me if I have been there.. Laughs ), A Police man does not parade his(her) amunition anyhow. In fact, before the Police will shoot at a suspect or an armed individual, such individual must have threatened or shot at them. Even in such cases, the Police Officer does not shot to kill, rather they shot to disarm the individual often times with rubber bullets.
Unfortunately, this is not the case with the Nigerian police. These supposed Security agents have turned out as insecurity agents rather.
What do we say about the incidence below in which a supposed trained Nigerian police Officer shot a 34 year old man over some inconsequential argument of N2,000 unpaid fee for a Job?
According to reports reaching NEGROIDHAVEN, A mobile police officer attached to the Bayelsa State Police Command shot a 34-year-old Adamu Mohammed in Yenagoa, the State capital over an argument on N2, 000 unpaid fees for a job done.
Our sources informed that the incidence happened last Tuesday.
The Story has it that Mohammed engaged a woman who had hired him to clear a piece of land close to her home at Erepa Road.
Eye witness argued that , the victim was shot in the thigh by a mobile policeman after an argument ensued over the amount to be paid for the Job. The policeman allege that he shot he only shot the victim to demobilise him.
Mohammed who accused the woman who gave him the job of cheating 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 or authenticating his claim, shot me in the thigh.”
It was further learnt that the policemen on duty at the residence of the undisclosed senior officer, appealed to the victim’s family not to lodge a formal complaint but should give them time to raise money for his treatment.
The family however noted that Mohammed has since been taken to Bauchi where he will receive traditional treatment.
With this kind of thing happening, we cannot stop asking where this country is actually heading?Going by the recent happenings and reports on the indiscipline of the Nigerian Police force in major states and Districts within the country.
It's a clear message from the Police, reading "hey citizens, don't expect security from us coz we can't guarantee you that. In fact, watch your backs when'er we are around. " So obvious.