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A Nigerian Police Inspector has committed suicide after reportedly shooting his colleague – Monday Gbaramana – to death in Rivers State.
The police operative identified
as Inspector Nelson Abuante reportedly shot his colleague on Sunday at
Nyogor-Lueku in the Khana Local Government Area of the state.
Both of them who are attached
to the Taabaa Division of the Rivers State Command had gone to arrest a suspect
in the community following a complaint by the suspect’s mother.
Trouble however started when
the suspect Akere Akpobari resisted the attempt to arrest him. In the ensuing
melee, Inspector Abuante accidentally shot Inspector Gbaramana.
Gbaramana sustained injuries
and was immediately rushed to the hospital. But the matter worsened when the
vehicle conveying them ran out of petrol, leading to Gbaramana’s death.
Once he realised this, Abuante
turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
In the wake of the incident,
the police spokesperson in Rivers Grace Iringe-Koko said “both bodies have been
deposited at the mortuary while investigations are ongoing”.
In a related development, armed
bandits have abducted the village head of Rakyabu in Tsafe Local Government
Area of Zamfara State, Magaji Sa’idu, and the Chief Imam of the village, Malam
Abdullahi
The incident happened last
Wednesday when the terrorists invaded the community.
Although police authorities in
the state are yet to confirm the latest abductions.
“I am not aware of the
incident, I just returned to the state from an official engagement, I will
contact the DPO of Tsafe and I will get back to you,” the spokesperson of
Zamfara State Police Command, Yazid Abubakar, told Channels Television.
But a resident of the area, who
pleaded anonymity for security reasons, said the bandits had contacted the
community, demanding N5 million as ransom.
According to him, the community
had launched an appeal fund since the incident happened and could only raise
N500,000. He said the bandits had collected the N500,000 and refused to release
the two abducted persons.
“They said we must balance the
remaining N4.5 million, they did not release the captives even till now,” he
said.
“We are soliciting support from
relevant authorities to assist us in getting the captives to regain their
freedom, we have tried our best since last week.”
Bandits have long terrorised
some North-West and North-Central states, operating from bases deep in forests
and raiding villages to loot and kidnap residents for ransom.
In the North-East, jihadists
have been pushed back from the territory they held at the height of the
conflict, though they continue to fight on in rural areas.
More than 40,000 people have
been killed and two million displaced since 2009 in that conflict.
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