Thirty-year-old first class
graduate of Economics from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Moses Murtala
Aminu was shot dead by a constable with the Nigeria Police.
Moses had on Sunday, left his No. 67 Ahmadu
Ahidjo Street, Narayi High Cost family residence for a party in Barnawa, Kaduna
State.
Vanguard reports
that,according to his friend and eyewitness, the police constable who was
identified as Alex Okpe was beating up Aminu’s girlfriend outside the party
venue when he tried to intervene.
At that point, the constable
got angry, reached for his jeans trousers, brought out his gun and fired,
killing Aminu on the spot. The constable also shot in the air as he escaped on
his motorcycle.
The killer policeman has been
tracked down and arrested by officers from the Barnawa Police Division.
The incident has also been confirmed by Femi
Adenaike, the Kaduna State Commissioner of Police and he said that it was true
Alex Okpe was arrested and he confessed to the killing on interrogation.
He said that Okpe claimed that
he fired in ‘self-defence’ when Moses and his friends were trying to fight him
over his girlfriend. According to the Police, Okpe was not even sent to Barnawa
as at that time and he will be tried and dismissed if found guilty
.“The suspect is in the cell and we have
commenced investigation. And if he is found guilty, we will give him an
in-house trial and summary dismissal so that he can face the law for homicide,”the
police boss said.
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