From PAUL ORUDE, Bauchi Monday, October 24, 2011
A 13-year-old boy has been rushed to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Teaching Hospital, Bauchi after being allegedly shot by a policeman during the crisis that erupted in Yelwa Kagadama area in the state capital last week.
Musa Wali, a student of Government Day Secondary School, Yelwa Tudu, Daily Sun learnt was standing near his house in Yelwa area on Thursday October 20 when he was allegedly shot by the police. The house of the teenager is a stone throw from the house of Charity Augustine who was shot dead by a trigger happy soldier inside the family house.
The elder brother of Musa, Timothy Wali said he was standing with a group of other people including some women, a patrol vehicle stormed the area and the policemen in the van were ordering people to go into their houses.
“Then a policeman shot my brother. The bullet hit him in the face and he collapsed. We rushed him to the hospital and the doctors said he is responding to treatment,” Timothy said.
Timothy said that the witnesses who were at the scene said the policemen boarded the Hilux van and just sat there as everyone was crying that Musa had been killed. He said that his brother was lucky that the bullet did not penetrate his face and that the Human Rights Watch office in the state had taken over the matter.
The Police Public Relations Officer, Mohammed Barau, was not available for comments on the matter as he did not pick our correspondent’s call nor reply the text message sent to his mobile telephone number.
Meanwhile, The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Bauchi command have refuted the allegation that Musa was beaten to death by their officials.
The boy who was not identified at the time of writing reports was alleged to have been beaten by men of the NSCDC as testified by some witnesses and widely reported in the media. But the State Commander of the NSCDC, Haruna Shehu disclosed this to newsmen in his office none of the men of the command was involved in beating of any civilian in the course of quelling the crisis.
Shehu said the men who were alos invited to assist other security agents to curtail crisis have been civil and had always maintained a cordial relationship with members of the public. Shehu who said that his men are not to carry weapons in relating to members of the public in the discharge of their duties not to talk of guns, said his men were always on crisis areas to assist the security agencies.
via Daily Sun
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