On Tuesday SOJWORLD.COM reported the case of a passenger who was shot in the leg by a policeman on a road block. A concerned Nigerian had written a public petition for the authority to fish out the policeman who committed the offence.
We can authoritatively say the Rivers State Police Command arrested the police officer on Wednesday as reported by The Vanguard.
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According to The Vanguard, the police personnel, who was on stop and search at Evekwu axis on the East-West road with other colleagues, shot a passenger who was travelling on Agofure bus from Warri in Delta State to Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Confirming the development, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, Public Relations Officer of the state police command, said the officer, who shot the passenger has been handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department.
He added that Section 237 of Police Code, which borders on how an officer should use a firearm would be evoked on the suspect.
He said the incident happened on December 11, adding that the victim has already been discharged from the hospital.
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The report SOJWORLD.COM sent to the public on Tuesday;
“A concerned Nigerian is calling the attention of the higher echelon of the Nigeria Police Force for a thorough investigation into the incident he witnessed on his way from Port-Harcourt to Lagos on December 14, 2018.
He narrated the brutality of a policeman manning a roadblock in ‘Rumoji before Choba’. The policeman allegedly shot an unarmed and unidentified passenger in the leg which made him bleeding profusely.
The level he could see was that the police took the wounded young man to an unknown destination which called for investigation the whereabouts of the man and his condition if he is still alive or not.
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It was an eyesore seeing blood on the floor with some good samaritans who are co-passengers trying to give a helping hand to stop the bleeding.
This is the unedited Save Our Soul (SOS) sent to social media to call for an investigation to get to the root of the matter;
“Which way Nigeria. I was coming back from Lagos to pH today 14th December 2018 at 4:15 pm Nigerian time.
At one of the police check points in Rumoji before Choba; a police officer stopped our bus and asked the Agofere company driver to provide his drivers license, the driver provided it, he later asked for tinted glass permit, so the driver told him that he’s not in possession of it and that the company did not give him that.
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He told the driver if he will not provide it, that he’s going to rough handle him. We all came down to plead with the policeman, and this passenger u see bleeding in this video was talking with the police and another policeman crossed over to meet us, and joined with Mr John the first policeman to ask for the permit and the boy in this video, told them they should allow our vehicle to go, and the policeman u see in this video shot this boy on the leg, from the van, now we are trying to help because the boy is bleeding seriously.
Pls share this video, and let the world see the kind of people we recruited into our police force.
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My fear is that the same police took him away, I want Nigerians to follow it up, and ensure this get to the authority.
I fear for the future of this country with what my eyes saw today.
The officer’s name that started this problem, is John Sambo, with the batch no. 243014.â€
www.soworld.com (c) December 20, 2018
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