On Tuesday, a police inspector identified as Mohammed Usman allegedly shot and wounded two drivers in Lokoja, Kogi State over alleged refusal to give bribe.

The incident was said to have occurred at the Ibro Motor Park, opposite the Lokoja International Market. Ibrahim Yakubu, the branch chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), said that trouble started when one of their drivers was stopped by a police team at a checkpoint in Zango area on the Lokoja-Okene highway and ordered to offer them a bribe.

According to him, the driver refused and continued on his journey towards Lokoja. He, however, added that the policemen chased after the driver to the Ibro Motor Park.

“We were just sitting at the park at about 11am, when we started hearing sporadic gunshots. The next thing, we saw one of our fellow drivers run to the union office. The next thing, we saw two policemen follow him. Our union officials addressed them and they left.

The driver said he left his vehicle by the roadside and when we went there, we met a police inspector inside the vehicle. We told him that we are taking the vehicle to the park and he followed us inside. On getting to the union office at the motor park, we told him that we had already settled the matter with the other two policemen.

Upon hearing that, he (Inspector Mohammed Usman) became furious and brought out his gun and first shot on the ground. As he continued his sporadic shooting, a bullet hit one of our drivers, Mohammed Attah, on the leg, while another driver, Emmanuel, was hit in the stomach.

Following the incident, the other policemen stationed outside drove into the park with their hilux bus, and quickly rescued the inspector and drove out.

We then went to B Division Police Station to report the matter and the DPO followed us with the victims to Federal Medical Centre and from there we went to the state police command, to report the matter. The CP has ordered that the policemen involved should be detained until the outcome of victims in the hospital.”

The spokesman of the Kogi State Police Command, William Aya, who confirmed the incident, explained that the policemen who were on stop-and-search operation stopped the driver, but that he refused, and as a result, they pursued him, on the suspicion that he might be carrying incriminating items.

He added that the driver got to a town near a motor park and abandoned his vehicle by the roadside and ran into the park. He said one of the policemen went after him, and that in the process, there was a misunderstanding which led to accidental discharge.

Aya said that the policemen involved have been detained, while the matter is being investigated by the State CID. He added that appropriate sanctions would be taken against those found wanting, at the close of investigation.

See more: https://zenithnaija.com/bribe-seeking-police-officer-shoots-two-drivers-in-kogi-state/

This is too bad of the police

I've never seen a more criminally minded police force like the Nigerian Police

Drunk men on uniform. I don't just like there unprofessional nature.

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What is more disheartening is, I heard if you're shot and you manage to get your self to a hospital or a health care facility, you'd be asked to go get a police report in that state.

Please someone confirm this for me is it true? If true, how bad. What happened to treating and arresting the suspect, saving the life then inquire what went wrong?

Please someone clarify before I dive into conclusion

Idiots!

Kogi, home of weirdos e.g Dino, yahaya bello

Buhari sef

fran6co:
Drunk men on uniform. I don't just like there unprofessional nature.

* their

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My igala brethren in the house can relate to it better

Police is not your friend

What do you think is the best punishment for that police man?

Ma so person papa/husband/son take comot no come back again. Odiegwu.

Another fool in police uniform

God why!
How I wish I can just sack everybody in the Police at once and then enter transfer market to recruit people with sense & not these mad people.

God help my Country.. Amen

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What can stop this barbaric act ? Everytime accidental discharge. Naija tire person ooo.

as him don die the police man will be made to collected am from the died body now


if left to me i will lock the corpse with the police man in a cell until he collect the bribe from fellow cellmate

Accidental discharge God punish Nigeria police. They are all animals in cloth. Different harassment everyday.

Coti be lyk u cnt get me

Useless set of human beings

Transmission police officers

Not surprised, he is a Muslim

D man won't go unpunished
This happen to my classmate's brother o (Martins Emmanuel)
From my chat wit him he said the police man was running after a man who gave them 30# instead of 50# to were his brother his resting
Those shoot are even Innocent

iamvictorbassey:
What is more disheartening is, I heard if you're shot and you manage to get your self to a hospital or a health care facility, you'd be asked to go get a police report in that state.

Please someone confirm this for me is it true? If true, how bad. What happened to treating and arresting the suspect, saving the life then inquire what went wrong?

Please someone clarify before I dive into conclusion

100 % correct, the doctor license would be ceased if he attends to gunshot survivors without police report.
and hospital closed.

the idea is to avoid treatment to criminals that survive gun battles with the police, the mistake is that the government classify its citizens as criminals if u are not on uniform