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Delta State: Police officer shoots suspect dead in public
An outrage erupted on the social media space on Tuesday after a widely circulated video showing the cold-blooded killing of a restricted suspect by police officers in Delta State emerged.
The viral video which was posted on X (formerly Twitter) showed a policemen in civilian clothing operating beside a vehicle labelled “Nigeria Police Force, Effurun Area Command,” with a suspect whose hands and legs were bound, sitting on the ground.
The suspect who was pleading for his life could be heard saying: “Officers, abeg, I’ll tell you everything. It was my friend who deceived me.”
As he disclosed information about the whereabouts of his friend, stating, “He’s at Sapele. I’ll take you to him,” one of the armed men shot the man’s leg.
He kept pleading: “He’s at Sapele. I don’t know anything. Please. I’ll take you to him. He’s at Sapele. I’ll take you to him, officer. Officer, I didn’t know.”
As he kept pleading and wailing, the same armed man fired a second shot towards the man’s head in full view of onlookers, as his lifeless body was then carried into the police van, before the team drove off.
The Delta State Police Command said in a statement that the police officer involved in the act, ASP Nuhu Usman, had been arrested and transferred to the Force Headquarters, Abuja, for disciplinary action following the fatal shooting of a suspect, Mene Ogidi, in Effurun.
Details later…
