Plateau State Commissioner of Police, CP Bartholomew N. Onyeka, has arrested a five-man patrol team that killed a 17-year-old resident of the Agingi community in the Bassa Local Government Area of the state.
According to a statement issued and signed by the spokesman of the command, DSP Alfred Alabo, CP Onyeka strongly condemned the act believed to have been carried out by the police patrol operatives attached to the “C” Division of Plateau State Command.
The police chief, who described the incident as a paradox, asserted that police officers are empowered by law to bear firearms to protect the lives of the citizenry and not to take lives with them.
He stated that the erring patrol team has been arrested to ensure that none of the members of the team evaded justice, adding that the report of the police investigation will be made public at the end of the exercise.
“The five (5) officers who made up the patrol team have been arrested and are currently being investigated at the Homicide Section of the Plateau State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID),” he said.
The CP assured the family and friends of the deceased and Plateau residents as a whole of justice and that the culprits would be thoroughly investigated and made to face the wrath of the law according to their involvement in the vicious killing.
Recall that the deceased was killed on Monday at about 10:45 a.m. by a stray bullet from the patrol team while trying to arrest some commercial motorcyclists who violated the bike ban within the Jos metropolis.
In the melee that ensued, one of the members of the patrol team shot into the air, and it hit the deceased, who was in his master’s shop attending to customers.
It was gathered that the incident caused a commotion within the city centre called Terninus as traders and other people doing business within the area hurriedly closed their shops for safety.
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