Policeman Shoots 40-Year-Old To Death.
40-year-old
man, Benalayefa Asiayei, has been shot dead by a policeman along Azikoro Road
in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
Eyewitness
said, Asiayei was returning from work in his vehicle, a Toyota Sienna, around
8pm on Tuesday when he was shot by the policeman.
When
contacted about the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Musa
Mohammed, said the policeman responsible is attached to the state security
outfit, Operation Doo Akpo, and the deceased, who was an electrician and hailed
from the Bobougbene community in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State,
was carrying a passenger in the front seat when the incident occurred.
An
eyewitness said the Operation Doo Akpo patrol stopped him and demanded N200 as
their usual collection package from motorists, which he said he did not have,
and while, Asiayei complained that he was carrying only one passenger when the
policeman suddenly fired at him, and the corpse has been deposited at
the Government House Hospital, Yenagoa and later to the mortuary of the Federal
Medical Centre, Yenagoa.
Meanwhile,
the family is seeking justice, and urging Governor Douye Diri, the Inspector
General of Police and the Ijaw Youth Council to take the necessary steps
against police brutality in the state.
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