… As Police Trail Facebook User Over Post, Arrest Innocent Residents In Delta Community
An unidentified trigger happy police officer has allegedly shot a girl whose name is yet to be ascertained on her head in Oleh, Isoko south local government area of Delta State.
Trouble started on the eve of Sunday January 23rd 2022, when the police in company of two other colleagues who came to arrest a boy who allegedly stole a phone shot sporadically into the air to scare away people.
A source who pleaded anonymity, disclosed that it was the stray bullet from the gun of the police officer that hit the victim on the head.
Our source said the incident occured along IDC road Oleh, saying that the young girl is still in the hospital receiving treatment.
“She is not dead. She is still in the hospital. It happened in IDC road, Oleh. They wanted to make an arrest of a boy who they said stole a phone. They were shooting to scare people” the source revealed.
Meanwhile, in a fresh post she made on Umeh Need Road, a Facebook page, she said: “I made a post of a girl been shot by police here in IDC road a week ago,this morning police came to arrest people.
“Information reaching me this night that they are coming for me. Now what is my offence, y do they what to arrest me if they know they didn’t do it”.
Reacting to the post on the comments section, a Facebook user, Sarah Law, wrote: “I got informed of this new development this evening because they beat up an unprofessional and untrained police officer who shot an innocent girl.
This simply point to one thing. If you don’t have money in Nigeria, you will face oppression even if you are right. If the girl’s father were to be rich, they would never try this.
‘They would have been begging him not to take up the case. They will silently bury the case and not think of arresting anyone. The system will always be b*d.
“I advise you leave town if possible. If they get you, you will spend lots of money to get out because that is the aim of the arrest, to milk people of their hard earned money”.
But in a swift reaction, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) DSP Edafe Bright, when contacted, said: “Nobody was shot, and even the lady who claimed to be shot went to the hospital, the DPO went there and the doctor confirmed that bullet didn’t hit her, so it’s not true”, he added.
