An army captain has allegedly shot and wounded a police corporal while another sustained bruises over an argument. The incident happened in Aba, the commercial hub of Abia State.

Daily Sun gathered that one Corporal Sunday Adamu of the Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS), Base 4, Mgboko, near Aba, who was in mufti had gone to a phone booth at the Obikabia junction to buy recharge card.

At the phone booth, an argument was said to have ensued between Adamu and another young man who was later identified as an army captain. The latter, whose name could not be immediately ascertained and was also in mufti was reported to have slapped the former.

A bewildered Adamu retaliated the slap and at the behest of the said army captain, a soldier on uniform who mounted a nearby military armoured personnel carrier (APC) and was watching the incident, jumped down with his gun and allegedly shot the policeman on the right thigh and inflicted bruises on another, Corporal Friday Labija.
A policeman who did not want his name in print told our correspondent that it was wrong for soldiers drafted to the state to help in providing security to turn their guns on innocent citizens.

“The other time, it was reported that a soldier killed a civilian in Aba and just last week, they shot one of our men, but these are people that are supposed to cooperate with us in providing security in the city. We suffered much here during the kidnap era and we should not now be paid in this coin. “The soldier has come to say he never knew his victim was a policeman. If that were to be the case, then he was licensed to kill civilians,” he said fuming.

fingard02k:
A policeman who did not want his name in print told our correspondent that it was wrong for soldiers drafted to the state to help in providing security to turn their guns on innocent citizens.

I no fit shout! when did the nigerian police, serial killers of civilians, turn to innocent citizens?

This is why soldiers belong to the barracks and not dwelling among civilians.