The Nigeria Police Force has come under heavy attack after a painter was allegedly killed by one of its men in Rivers.
Mr. Ese Akpan
A painter identified as Mr. Ese Akpan has been killed in Rivers State, Punch Metro reports.
The man had told his family on Tuesday that he was going out to get
the money owed him by a construction company. He, however, did not get
to his destination, as he was killed by a stray bullet from a police
team escorting a bullion van to a bank.
According to a Closed-Circuit Television camera, which captured the
scene, Ese was shot at exactly 1.45pm on Old Aba Road, Rumuomasi,
Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
Punch Metro, which obtained footage of the incident, observed that
Camera 4 captured Ese as he walked along the road while the police van
came behind.
The second side, captured by Camera 1, showed a woman with a baby standing at the bus stop as Ese approached.
There was a sudden gunshot which hit the 60-year-old, while the frightened woman fled the sight.
About two minutes afterwards, some sympathisers, including workers
of First Rivers Hospital Limited, a private facility in front of which
the incident occurred, rushed to help the victim.
An official at the hospital, who did not want to be identified,
said a few minutes after the victim was taken to the hospital, a man
came in to check on him.
He said, “The man said the escort team was coming from an
eatery at Rumukoro where the operatives had gone to pick some money. He
said they were heading towards a bank in the area and he was driving
behind the van when they fired the shot. He said they usually did that
when they approached where they were taking money to. Unfortunately, the
man was hit by the bullet. He told us to save his life.”
A senior official at the hospital, who spoke for the management, said efforts by the hospital to save Ese were abortive.
“Our doctors, nurses and matrons were all involved in the
battle to save his life. He lost a lot of blood. The bullet destroyed
his internal organs. We took him to the theatre, and our workers even
donated three pints of blood to save him, but he died. He was able to
give us his name and address before passing on,” she added.
She noted that the hospital reported the matter to a police station in the area.
The widow of the victim, Mrs. Christiana Akpan, said when she
attempted to report the case at the Area Command, Moscow Road, she was
chased out of the command.
She added that when she went to the governor’s office, she was not given any audience.
Christiana told Punch Metro that her husband had left the house
with a plan to demand payment of a debt owed him by a construction
company.
She said, “He worked as a painter and had executed a project
for a construction company last year. He used the money that we saved
for our house rent to complete the project. The firm paid him part, but
still owed him about N266,900.
“Since that time, he had been going to ask for the balance
without any result. Our landlady recently served us a notice to quit and
he became desperate to recover the money.
“On Tuesday, January 31, around 1pm, we both left the house and
when we got to Mile 1, we parted ways. I went to see a friend, while he
went to the company. It was not up to one hour that I was called that
my husband had been shot.
“I went to report at the area command, but immediately I said
policemen shot my husband, I was chased out. I went to the governor’s
office and I was sent away like a thief.”
Punch Metro learnt that the deceased, who was survived by four
children, had been taken by the family to a mortuary in his hometown in
the Essien Udium Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
The family’s first child, Kingsley, demanded that the government bring the culprits to book and pay the damages.
“Before my dad died, he told me that he was shot by the police.
The police are silent about the case and have refused to do anything.
We want the government to bury him and pay damages,” he added.
Another member of the family, Blessing, asked the authorities not to sweep the case under the carpet.
The state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Omoni Nnamdi, said
he was not aware of the incident, promising to get back to Punch Metro.
He had, however, yet to do so as of the time of filing this report.
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