A soldier, simply identified as Sunday
has killed a Hausa cattle dealer, Shafi’u Garba, over his refusal to
pay N500 bribe at a military check-point in Edo state, DailyNigerian
reports.
The
incident reportedly happened when Mr Garba, popularly known as Ganda,
was conveying cattle in truck from Wudil in Kano to Edo state. Witness
said the incident occurred at a military check-point at Uromi, around
6pm on December 8.
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The
eyewitness, Sani Abdullahi, who was in the same truck with the victim,
said the Mr Garba was shot in the head by the soldier and died a few
hours after. “After going past the military check-point, and having seen
that the military man was following us on a motorcycle, late Shafi’u
advised that we stop.
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When
we stopped, the soldier pointed his gun at us and fired three shots.
The first bullet hit the roof of the truck, while the second shot hit
him in the head. Nobody stopped us at the check-point. .
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We
only saw the soldier rode past us on a motorcycle and started shooting
and demanding why we did not drop the N500 required to pass the
check-point. Shafi’u was rushed to a nearby hospital but died a few
hours later. .
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We reported the matter
to the DPO of Uromi police station, but the police attempted to
manipulate the issue. Even though the army settled the hospital bill and
arrested the soldier, but that is not enough.
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We want the full wrath of the law to take its course on this wicked soldier,” the eyewitness narrated.
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