Police kills another innocent person in Bayelsa
Barely two months after the Bayelsa Police Command killed
Master Innocent Kokorifa, 17 in cold blood, police operatives on Saturday
killed another innocent person in Yenagoa.
The 17-year-old Innocent, first out of five children of Mr.
Daniel Kokorifa, an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, was shot dead in
a mysterious circumstance by the police Anti-Vice/Anti-Kidnapping team along
Airforce Road in Yenagoa, on August 18, 2016 was also buried on Saturday in
Yenagoa.
The Bayelsa Police Command on Sunday said that it is
investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an innocent person
shot in error by police while responding to a distress call.
Mr Asinim Butswat, a Deputy Superintendent of Police and
Police Spokesman in a statement issued in Yenagoa that one of the three people
shot in error on Saturday died in hospital.
Asinim who said that investigation into the incident had
commenced said that the policemen who fired the shot was immediately identified
and taken into custody.
“On the 22 October 2016, at about 1730hours, Policemen from
the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, responded to a distress call of cult attack at
Ekeki village, Yenagoa.
“The Policemen were ambushed by the cultist.
“Consequently, a police sergeant fired, the bullet
ricocheted, and injured three persons who were unfortunately not among the
cultists.
“The victims were rushed to the Federal Medical Centre,
Yenagoa, for treatment and one of them later died.
“The sergeant who fired has been detained. Investigation is
ongoing,” Buswat said.
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