The commanding officer in-charge
of 10 Police Mobile Force (PMF), Bauchi, Bauchi State, Superintendent of Police
(SP) Chris Eza, was, on Thursday night, shot dead by a police corporal.
Eza, according to a statement
made available to journalists in Bauchi on Friday by the state police command’s
Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Haruna Mohammed, was shot by the
corporal at about 11:20 p.m. while on routine visit at a stop-and-search point
on the Ahmadu Bello way in Bauchi metropolis.
According to him, Eza was rushed
to the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital (ATBUTH) in Bauchi,
where he was certified dead by a doctor, adding that his corpse had been
deposited at the mortuary of the hospital.
The police spokesman said that
the Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Mohammed, with his management team,
visited the scene of the incident and ordered investigation into the matter.
A security source said that the
deceased mobile police officer asked the corporal to surrender his rifle over
to him, which he refused.
The source added that the
corporal based his refusal on the fact that surrendering his rifle to the
commanding officer was against service rule.
It was learnt that the deceased
had left the scene but later returned to make same demand of the corporal, who
insisted that he was going to shoot anyone who moved near him, a threat he
eventually carried out when the deceased was said to have moved near him.
The source further said that the
corporal, on shooting Eza, reported himself at the station.
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