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A 13-Year-Old Boy, Olaitan Tiamiyu, narrowly escaped death after he was erroneously shot by a night guard at Wajawaja Community in Apete area of Ibadan, Oyo State, while on his father’s motorcycle on their way home late on Monday night.

The night guard, Mr Akeem Babalola, however said that he thought the rider was a thief when he waved at him to stop but he sped off.

Nigerian Tribune gathered that the boy’s father, Alhaji Monsuru Tiamiyu, was on his way home with his son whom he went to pick from his mother’s shop when the incident occurred.

According to a community member, who craved anonymity, the man was passing by Alapata Community on Apete-Akufo Road when he saw flashlights.

Thinking they were robbers, he increased his speed and left the people whose faces he could not see.

“He thought he had left them behind, but what he heard next was a loud bang from a gunshot. Then his son cried out that he had been hit,” the source said.

With his son writhing in pain, the shocked father was said to have gone back where the shooter was and held him. Two other guards with him reportedly fled when they saw that their boss recognised the rider.

The source said that the father asked his son to make a distress call to their family members and neighbours who arrived at the scene of the incident shortly after.

Nigerian Tribune further learnt that on sighting the boy with gunshot injuries, the mob which had gathered attacked the shooter until he lost consciousness.

The boy was taken to a local doctor to extract 11 pellets buried in his left thigh, buttock and back, while the night guard was conveyed to a private hospital for prompt medical treatment of his battered head and face.

When Nigerian Tribune visited the boy in the hospital he was transferred to after the local pellets extraction, he was seen with a bandaged thigh which had bloody spots.

Narrating his experience, the JSS3 student said: “We live at Lamini Community. We were going home from my mother’s shop at Yidi area on Monday. We initially wanted to stop to pick something from our second shop at Alapata Community but my daddy decided against it because it was late.

“As we were on the road, we saw flashlights beamed at our direction. We saw men on the road standing on each side of it. We thought they were robbers, so my father sped past them to avoid an attack.

“As we were about to negotiate a corner, one of them fired a shot at us, hitting my thigh and back. It hit my father on his buttock. I cried out, telling my father that I had been hit when my leg went numb and cold. I saw blood flowing. I fell and sat on the ground.

“My father was so scared and angry. He turned back immediately and held the shooter. The night guard recognized my father but started using the flat side of his cutlass and charms to beat him. Initially, they didn’t allow us to call anyone. By then, I was bleeding and feeling weaker. My father held the shooter while the two others ran away.

“Eventually, I called my mother and informed her. She came with members of landlords’ association.”

Other people who heard the commotion and came reportedly descended on the night guard when they saw the wounded boy bleeding. The Wajawaja Community residents who initially came were said to have hurriedly left when they saw the turn things took.

In his own explanation, the night guard, Mr Babalola, aged 55, who disclosed that he also owns concrete block making business, said: “We usually resume duty at 11pm at Wajawaja Community where I was employed. I have two other men working with me. At about 11:50pm, I noticed a motorcycle rider coming towards where I was on the road. As the rider saw us ahead with flashlights, he made a turn.

“Seeing the way he quickly turned, I suspected him to be a thief trying to escape being caught. I told the two others to be on the watchout as he might be planning to commit crime.

“At about 12:10am on Tuesday, the rider emerged again. As he was about to reach us, we waved him to a stop but he didn’t. He almost hit one of my men. I didn’t know that my finger was on the trigger of the dane gun I had with me. I just heard its sound, and it fell from my hand.

The man turned and started shouting that his son had been shot. By the time I looked at him closely, he was someone I knew.

“I told him of the need to quickly rush the boy to a hospital, but he held me and asked his son to call those he knew. Shorttly after, some men arrived, brandishing guns.

“My dane gun was forcibly collected while they started beating me. They broke bottles on my head and stabbed me in different places. I lost consciousness and only found myself in the hospital.”

He said that the complainant was just trying to nail him by saying that he used charms to beat him, asking rhetorically how someone on whom charms were used would still be able to stand?

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, Oyo State Command, CSP Adewale Osifeso, confirmed the incident.

He said was already being investigated, adding that an update would be provided.

Source: https://tribuneonlineng.com/boy-escapes-death-on-fathers-bike-after-erroneous-shot-by-night-guard-in-ibadan/amp/

Glory Be To Almighty God, For Saving The Boy

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Glory Be To Almighty God, For Saving The Boy

This one na Good news na

You don dey cover Good news too?

The boy is very lucky and should be thanking his Chi .
Honestly I wonder why with all these evils multiplying everywhere daily,daft idiots who don't value their lives and security would wandering the streets very late at night when nearly everyone is asleep.
I don't pity such when they encounter trouble.

Every time I wake up and remember the evil APC party and the death and destruction Nigerians will face till 2027, I continue to fear the worse.

Where evil men rule, evil will rule. This is just the beginning.

Good one

Nice escape

Oh my!😳

Thank God for saving the life of the boy and his dad.

Always bad news.

Very sad that the child was shot, it's really unfortunate. The shooter should be punished accordingly.
But then again, if the Father thought the shooters were robbers, why did he turn back to hold them? It seems he knew they were night guards but deliberately ignored warning to stop.
Meanwhile, Night guards must learn to restrain themselves when handling guns. They need further training. I support every effort being made by communities across Nigeria to safeguard their people.

Congratulations

Too much
Shepe
Agbo Jedi
Ogogoro

And come carry gun, what do you expect?

Meanwhile what's happening in the SW these days
Why the mass exodus of their women to the south east? They are everywhere carrying herbal medicine and sharing kpekus like party rice

Is their land no longer flowing with honey again?

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Source: https://tribuneonlineng.com/boy-escapes-death-on-fathers-bike-after-erroneous-shot-by-night-guard-in-ibadan/amp/

That boy should just thank God and give his life to Jesus Christ

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Source: https://tribuneonlineng.com/boy-escapes-death-on-fathers-bike-after-erroneous-shot-by-night-guard-in-ibadan/amp/

If you wave at someone to stop and he speeds of, you will shoot him. Smh. I guess they learn from some Nigerian policemen how to not use firearms.

The boy was taken to a local doctor to extract 11 pellets buried in his left thigh, buttock and back, while the night guard was conveyed to a private hospital for prompt medical treatment of his battered head and face.

This is the VIP for me but I am afraid that these indigenous knowledge of our people will die very soon and our Gen Z will keep cursing their fathers that they are fools who don't know anything. Colonialism discarded our local intelligence and gave us foreign knowledge. Today, our average medical staff will speak from the textbook of Western medicine and abuse our own simply because it was not proved in science. I saw this happen during COVID 19 where some of them refused to accept the cure God gave us here because it was not tested in the lab.

May God cure us of this ignorance. The only reason people are now looking into traditional medicine is because inflation has made drugs expensive and if Trump cuts more aids through USAID and those agencies, maybe it will allow us more time to look within. Chinese preserved their acupuncture till it's now taught in Western schools.

Protect what you have

Preserve what you know


God bless Nigeria.

JuanDeDios:
If you wave at someone to stop and he speeds of, you will shoot him. Smh. I guess they learn from some Nigerian policemen how to not use firearms.

If any one of them had died. The person(s) should receive death sentenc.

Why are you shootings at someone who is not a threat of any kind to yorur immediate safety

One saw robbers the other saw thief, obi haters will soon say igbos and guns

The father is to be blame. He knew they were security before he increased the speed. If he thought they were robber, will he gone back to held the shooter? The father is a criminal.

All these night guards sef, I thought you should only shoot unjust aggressors who first shoot you

9jvirgin:
Every time I wake up and remember the evil APC party and the death and destruction Nigerians will face till 2027, I continue to fear the worse.

Where evil men rule, evil will rule. This is just the beginning.

Shay na APC still cuss this one? Make una tell try fear God and respect government. If the man and his son manage to rob or even kill the night guard una go say the guard is not vigilant or him no know his work.

Insecurity everywhere make aapeople try to be cautious of midnight movement.

Thank God for the boy life, I believe the night guard will be release after police investigation unless they is something else attach to it. thank God they know each other

[quote author=play5050 post=133947814]Shay na APC still cuss this one? Make una tell try fear God and respect government.

His time never reach ni o!

Cock and bull story. He thought they were robbers, he turned and fled. When he discovered the boy was shot, he turned and went back to the people he thought were robbers? With due apologies to the boy shot, the father is a suspect

.story didn't add up.

If the father thought they were robbers how come he went back after seeing they shot at his son? So that's how he would approach armed robber for shooting at his son?

Nigeriaans are too stubborn and like cutting corners.


He for just kill his son for nothing.

Also the other security run away after seeing mob attacking their boss.

Meanwhile, them go kneel b4 killer herd.smen even ask them to bring Sharia courts

9jvirgin:
Every time I wake up and remember the evil APC party and the death and destruction Nigerians will face till 2027, I continue to fear the worse.

Where evil men rule, evil will rule. This is just the beginning.

Seems APC is your nightmare

EmeeNaka:
But then again, if the Father thought the shooters were robbers, why did he turn back to hold them? It seems he knew they were night guards but deliberately ignored warning to stop.

4get that tin, if any criminal shoots any of my family I will swiftly come for u, u go gats kill me join. The man returned back in anger. Some people get mind, no b everybody be fear fear especially wen u hit on their family. Do u knw wat it means to shoot one's child?