A trigger-happy police officer attached to a Commercial Bank in Kano state has been accused of killing a man identified as Mus’ab Sammani, pictured above.
According to eyewitnesses, Mus’ab and a tricycle operator were engaged in a heated argument at Niger Avenue, by Mallam Kato Square, after the tricyclist brushed his car.
The accused police officer saw both men arguing and decided to settle their differences. He ordered Mus’ab to drive his car out of the road. When the officer thought the deceased was about to drive off, he corked his gun and threatened to shoot. Sadly, he fired a shot and the bullet peiced through the windscreen and hit the deceased on the neck. Mus’ab died on the spot.
He was rushed to the Mallam Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH), where he was pronounced dead.
Confirming the incident, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Abdullahi Haruna, said the officer involved has been arrested and investigation has since commenced into the matter.
See the post below:
It’s very unfortunate that we see these unwarranted killings by the police all through the time. The over riding tragedy now is, no matter how the prosecution of this policeman goes, the Mu’sab Sammani’s family has lost a son, a father, a brother…a bread winner… all for nothing against a man who posed no danger to the officer!
How many other innocent Nigerians have to die in these types of circumstances before the Nigerian Police Force begins to do something? We hear these types of stories in the southeast part of Nigeria…and everybody goes away on their businesses and nothing is done.
I was in the elementary school when a Nigerian Police officer shot and killed Dele Udoh, Nigerian sprinter for 200 and 400 track and field races, in Ojuelegba Roundabout in Lagos. He had returned home from the US to visit his family. Nigeria and Nigerians mourned because an international track star had been killed and after that…everybody went away. I wonder how many other Nigerians have met their makers since then on similar circumstances.