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  • Council chief relives ordeal with police

    •’I was rortured and detained’
    •‘I didn’t tear Jonathan’s poster’

    The Caretaker Chairman of Omuma Local Government Area of Rivers State, Emeka Wogu, has recounted how he was detained and tortured by policemen for allegedly tearing a campaign billboard of President Goodluck Jonathan.

    Wogu, a staunch supporter of Governor Rotimi Amaechi, said he had no hands in the alleged act.

    The council chief, in company of Special Duties Commissioner Dickson Umunakwe and the Publicity Secretary of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Chris Finebone, addressed reporters on Sunday at the Government House in Port Harcourt, the state capital.

    Wogu said the police threw him into a cell with over 150 armed robbers.

    The police command, under Tunde Ogunsakin, alleged that Wogu destroyed the President’s billboard but the council chairman denied the allegation.

    Wogu said: “On August 25, my wife organised a prayer meeting with some Omuma women at the local government secretariat. Two policemen, attached to the council by the Eberi Omuma Police Division, escorted them to Omuma for the prayer. As the local government chairman, I had a Joint Account Committee (JAC) meeting same day in Port Harcourt at the Ministry of Local Government Affairs. I was nowhere close to Omuma Local Government Area that day. It was after the JAC meeting that the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) called me in the evening that a few Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ‘boys’ had an instruction to damage the All Progressives Congress (APC) billboards in retaliation for a gun shot by one of the policemen from Eberi Omuma, who escorted the women to the prayer section. He said the bullet hit the billboard of Mr. President, erected by the PDP in Omuma.

    “So, my reply to the DPO was: ‘Maintain the peace; calm them down. Tell them that it was not APC, it was shot by a Nigerian police officer and the officer is not an APC member. I said the next day, I will come home to see if the damage was much since they were accompanying my wife and some women. I promised, in the interest of peace, to repair or replace the billboard for them.

    “But the next morning, my local government party chairman, Charles Amaefule, called Kelechi Nwogu, a member representing Omuma Constituency in the Rivers State House of Assembly (and the PDP leader in the local government), to know why some PDP supporters destroyed APC billboards. That same night, we got a report that PDP members engaged about six armed men, around 2am. Between 1am and 2am, they went round Wards 1 and 2 and pulled down over seven APC billboards and set them on fire. When my party chairman called Nwogu to find out why he sent PDP thugs to destroy APC billboards, I overheard him on phone asking why the council chairman called to beg him.

    “After the call, I rushed down to my place at Omuma because of the tension the PDP thugs were mounting on my council. I got home and addressed the APC youth, who wanted to retaliate the damage of seven APC billboards and flags, the Nigerian flag.”

    The chairman said he asked Kingsley Nwawu why his party was destroying APC property. He (Nwawu) said there was a plan to ensure that the policeman who allegedly shot at the President’s billboard was dismissed and my wife arrested and taken to Abuja for questioning.

    Wogu added: “He said if I wanted that to stop, he would speak to Nwogu, who claimed to have a link with the Presidency, that Nwogu had spent money contacting Abuja. He said I should look for big money before they could stop the action.”

    The council chairman added: “The billboard of Mr President, which was said to have been destroyed by the police is still standing and not destroyed, as they claim. It was only a tiny bullet hole that touched the billboard below the picture of Mr. President. For us as a party, we respect the President of our country, irrespective of his party affiliation. The billboard is still there.

    “After meeting with some chiefs in the area on how to address the issue, I got back to Port Harcourt at 10pm the same day, only to realise that my area’s DPO, accompanied by some heavily-armed policemen, numbering over 50, dressed in war gear, came to arrest me.

    “…They handcuffed me, tortured me and dragged me into their vehicle. They moved me to the old Government Reservation Area (GRA) Police Station and bundled me into the cell with common criminals and was later transferred to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) around 2am and locked me up in the midst of over 150 armed robbers.

    “The cell was so full that the inmates could not even find a place to lie down. The heat and the smell from the cell were horrible.”

    The council chairman said he was not told what his offence was.

    He added: “All the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State (Ogunsakin) told me was that he got a report that I ordered that the President’s banner be shot at (verbally). In the case file, I saw treasonable felony.

    “I want to say that this plan was orchestrated to remove me or to intimidate the party (APC), to harass me or cow me or to remove me from the scene for some time. I want to say that is totally unacceptable. I am consulting my lawyers to seek redress for unlawful detention, harassment and the humiliation…”

    Amaechi’s Chief Press Secretary David Iyofor urged the police to desist from harassing the governor’s supporters.

    Iyofor wondered why the police were unjustly harassing and torturing Amaechi’s supporters.

    He said the intimidation should stop.

     

  • Boko Haram: Colonel, five soldiers, 53 terrorists killed in Borno attacks

    Boko Haram: Colonel, five soldiers, 53 terrorists killed in Borno attacks

    •10 Policemen also
    •Bomber, four others die in botched bomb attack

    Three weekend onslaughts by   terrorists have claimed the lives of an army Colonel, five other  soldiers, 10 policemen, three members of a vigilance group and 53  insurgents  in Borno State.

    One of the policemen was a divisional police officer (DPO), according to sources.

    Most of the casualties were recorded in Damboa Local Government Area of the state where terrorists were said to have stormed troops’ bases with   a view to ambushing them.

    They were, however, repelled during which the Colonel, the five soldiers and 10 policemen lost their lives.

    Fifty of the terrorists  involved in the operation were killed while a botched suicide mission at a checkpoint in Konduga in Borno State led to the death of the bomber, a policeman and three members of a vigilance group.

    The insurgents fired on the military in Damboa with rocket-propelled grenades, Gideon Jubrin, police spokesman for Borno State, said.

    He had no information on casualties.

    Another security source said the raid was a revenge mission after dozens of Boko Haram militants were killed in an air and ground offensive on two of their camps in areas of Borno called Yejiwa and Alagarno.

    The Director of Defence Information, Maj-Gen. Chris Olukolade, in a statement last night, confirmed the invasion by the insurgents saying only   that “a total of five soldiers and a senior officer were also killed while repelling the attack.”

    He was silent on the identity of the senior officer.

    Our correspondent, however, gathered that a Colonel was killed in the encounter.

    The Colonel was said to have put up a gallant effort in coordinating the repel of the insurgents.

    The DHQ said: “Over 50 terrorists died as troops repelled a daring attack on troops’ locations in Damboa, Borno State yesterday (Friday) night.

    “The terrorists had stormed the troops’ bases and police locations while most of the troops were out on patrol of surrounding villages. A total of five soldiers and a senior officer were also killed while repelling the attack. A cordon and search of the locality is ongoing, while the bodies of the fallen soldiers have been recovered and deposited in the military morgue.  The wounded are also receiving treatment in the military medical facility.”

    On the curtailment of insurgents in Baga and Konduga, Gen. Olukolade said  troops on patrol around Baga area  recovered explosives and rifles concealed in a truck loaded with fish and other commodities.

    Four suspects were taken into custody in connection with the incident.

    He added:”at Konduga also in Borno State, a suicide bomber in a Golf car yesterday (Friday) crashed into a checkpoint killing himself, a policeman and three Vigilante Youth members.”

    A source, who declined to be named, said residents were observing Friday prayers at Konduga when the pick-up truck approached.

    A local vigilante group stopped the truck to inspect it and the bomber then detonated the bomb a few metres away from the mosque, he said.

    Witness Mohammadu Sheriff said he had seen the vigilantes conducting checks on a pick-up van carrying firewood.

    “Suddenly it exploded,” he said. “It would have been more devastating if the bomber had succeeded in driving near the mosque, which had over a thousand people in it.”

    On the same day, terrorists had laid ambush on the  Maiduguri- Mafa- Dikwa road killing about 15 passengers and motorists .

     

  • Two held with N11m Indian hemp in Oyo

    The Police in Oyo State have arrested two suspected Indian hemp dealers in Ibadan, the state capital.

    Police Commissioner Mohammed Indabawa said Mrs. Toyin Adegoke (30) and David Ndidi (27) were arrested around 9pm on November 29 at Eleja, along Akanran, with 646 bags of Indian hemp worth N11 million.

    Parading the suspects yesterday at the Command Headquartres in Eleyele, Indabawa said the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) at Ogbere received information that a consignment of weeds was about to be transported by a DAF truck, marked XR 967 JJJ, from a cannabis plantation at Eleja.

    He said some of the suspects escaped when the police stormed the farm, but two were arrested.

    Indabawa said the police were on the trail of the suspects at large.

    Speaking with reporters, Ndidi claimed to be a motor boy, adding that the owner of the consignment and the driver escaped.

    He said Mrs. Adegoke knew about the Indian hemp and was following the truck with her car when the police arrested them.

    Ndidi said: “The driver of the lorry and the owner asked me to alight at Olorunsogo and picked me up after the lorry was loaded. I did not know there was Indian hemp in the lorry.”

    Mrs. Adegoke said she was an orange seller and was in Eleja to buy oranges from her base in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, but was arrested “during the commotion”.

  • ‘Probe disruption of G-7 governors’ parley’

    The leadership of the New Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for a probe into the November 3 disruption of a meeting of the G-7 governors at the Kano State Governor’s Lodge at Asokoro, Abuja, by a Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Nnana Amah, a chief superintendent of Police (CSP).

    Amah stormed the Governor’s Lodge when the seven PDP factional governors were meeting. He reportedly said he was acting on “orders from above” to stop the meeting or get the governors arrested.

    Those at the meeting were: Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa) and others.

    The factional party’s call for the probe is coming on the heels of a statement by Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Abubakar that he did send anyone to disrupt the meeting.

    In his submission before the House of Representatives’ Committee on Police Affairs last week, Abubakar said: “I want to state that neither myself nor any of my officers directed anybody to disrupt any meeting. But the officer has a duty to account for his actions and activities within his domain.”

    In a statement yesterday by the National Publicity Secretary of the New PDP, Chukwuemeka Eze, the party challenged the IG to prove his sincerity by instituting a probe into the incident.

    It said: “This is the only way to convince Nigerians that he (IG) had no hand in the brazen attempt by the Divisional Police Officer of Asokoro Division, CSP Nnanna Amah, to illegally terminate a legitimate gathering.

    “CSP Nnanna Amah, who had the temerity to threaten to arrest the G7 governors if they did not stop the meeting, claimed to be acting on orders from a higher authority from the Villa. Who is that authority in the Villa? Nigerians surely deserve to know.”

    It added: “We hope that the IG is not trying to hide behind a finger in this instance. We are just thinking aloud because the IG cannot claim ignorance of the impunity being perpetrated in Rivers State by the Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu, who has continued to be retained in that sensitive office, despite requests for his transfer by the Rivers State government, the National Assembly and many other eminent groups.

    “Is the IG trying to say that he can no longer control people working under him? That is an unsettling thought, in view of the implications for the maintenance of peace and security in the country.

    “We trust the IG’s competence and integrity but we urge him to sit up and take a stand on the side of truth and justice to avoid being seen as a threat to our fledgling democracy.

    “He should remember the type of support that both the G7 governors and other Nigerians gave him on his appointment and stop any further acts of impunity by the police.”

  • Descent into fascism?

    Not a few Nigerians are worried at the way governance is drifting in our country under the guise of politics. Even more are annoyed that President Goodluck Jonathan seems unperturbed by this descent and may in fact be enjoying it. And unfortunately at the centre of this fall is the Nigeria Police.

    Penultimate Sunday seven state governors from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were meeting at the Kano State Governor’s Lodge in Abuja when midway or thereabout into their deliberations, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Asokoro Police Station, Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Nnanna Amah barged in and ordered them to stop and disperse immediately claiming he had orders from above not to allow the meeting.

    Understandably the governors, members of a breakaway faction of the party called new PDP were shocked. This was how Kano State governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, the host, described the event: “We were discussing in my sitting room when the DPO came in and asked us to disband. We were discussing how to approach Mr. President and come up with a stand when invited, but this meeting was disrupted by a DPO. We didn’t offend anybody, but like criminals, a DPO was sent to disrupt our meeting.” Kwankwaso went on to say that not even when Nigeria was under military rule did anything like this happen.

    The DPO did not disclose who it was ‘above’ that gave him that order, but in the Nigerian situation it is safe to assume that the order came from the Presidency via the Inspector-General of Police Mohammed Abubakar.

    The rabidly pro Jonathan camp will vehemently deny this and even call anybody that suggests this was the situation names. But whatever they chose to say would not remove the fact that the Nigeria Police under IGP Abubakar has been used more as agents of oppression and suppression of any view(s) and action(s) that are not in tandem with the second term project of Dr Jonathan.

    How do you explain the situation in Rivers State where the Commissioner of Police Mbu Joseph Mbu enforces the law the way it suits his political paymasters? He is in open confrontation with the State governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, one of the G-7 governors and opposes virtually everything the government is doing or wants to do that involves the people gathering. He has banned every political rally or gathering of the sort, disrupting such where the governor and state government are involved yet allowing the Grassroots Democratic Initiative (GDI) of Amaechi’s main opponent and Coordinating Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike to meet freely and canvass for support. But anything gathering for Amaechi must be prevented or disrupted even if violently. This has been going on a long time and both the president and the Inspector-General are conspiring to remain silent fuelling belief that they are solidly behind CP Mbu.

    Just last week the IGP announced a ban on rallies and gatherings around and at airports nationwide. The announcement came on the back on the police preventing Amaechi’s supporters from going to Port Harcourt international Airport at Omagwa to welcome visiting leaders of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) who were in Rivers State to woo the governor and his supporters into APC. Meanwhile the First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan who goes about with almost a battalion of policemen each time she visited home (Port Harcourt) and her supporters have free access to the airport.

    The Abuja police action against the G-7 was not the first time. The police had, not too long ago, similarly gone to the Sokoto Governor’s Lodge in Abuja to stop a gathering of the governors, but were not so lucky, as the governors fixed that venue as a decoy and actually met at a secret location. Known members, supporters and sympathisers of the new PDP are being similarly harassed routinely by the police in Abuja and the Ministry of Federal Capital Territory. The FCT authorities have threatened to demolish properties being used by the new PDP either as party secretariat or for meetings. In Bayelsa, Gombe and a couple of other states, nPDP leaders and supporters are being hounded by the police.

    All these are happening under the president’s watch and the Commander-In-Chief and his Inspector-General of Police are seeing nothing wrong here and saying nothing. PDP elders and the Bamanga Tukur faction are enjoying it. As long as the shoe is on the other foot no problem; but there is a problem here. Our democracy is under threat. Freedom of association, freedom to dissent, freedom of choice et al are being trampled upon by Jonathan’s police just to drive fear into the opposition and make Nigerians submissive to the president’s 2015 ambition.

    Nigeria is gradually being turned into a police state where opponents of government are either haunted into submission or punished for cooked up offence(s) using the apparatus and agents of state. This is the way of fascists. Although this looks like stretching the argument too far, the signs are there that President Goodluck Jonathan could lead us down that road if he is not called to order. And the only body that can do that is the National Assembly. But can this Assembly do it? Yes, if the will is there.

    But I have my doubt if this will ever happen. This National Assembly is sharply divided. While the House of Representatives might be willing to call the president and his IGP to order, the Senate often acts with too much restraint at times bordering on total submission to the will of the president. Not a few Nigerians believe that this Senate, when the chips are down, will always side with President Jonathan even at the risk of this democracy.

    But for how long can and should the senate continue to shield the president and tolerate his excesses? At what point would the Senators act and stop this culture of impunity that is the hallmark of Jonathan’s presidency. Make no mistake about it, the president is a gentleman, as all have acknowledged, but he is grossly incompetent. Doing the routine things alone would not make Jonathan a great leader neither also would he’s being nice. Taking major political decisions in the interest of the state, even if such hurt personally would put him up there as one of our finest; and he can start by calling the IGP and his boys to order, or rather allow the police to work without political interference. He should also rein in the excesses of his supporters especially his Ijaw kinsmen; and not forgetting Madam, the First Lady.

    A good place to start would be in Rivers State where a combination of his wife’s interest, the inordinate ambition of the Coordinating Minister of Education Nyesom Wike, his own second term interest and the uncompromising stance of state governor, Rotimi Amaechi are threatening the peace and security not only of the state but also the wellbeing of Nigeria’s democracy. In between put in a partisan police commissioner and you get the picture of what is going on in Rivers State.

    Some of these the president acknowledged in his speech at the centenary celebration of Port Harcourt last week, but he should not just stop at the talking, he should walk his talk and do the needful and douse the tension, not just in Rivers state but also nationwide. He should be mindful of how he uses the police lest we fall into fascism. State governors are not ordinary Nigerians to be harassed by the police just because they disagree with the president. Enough of this, Mr President.

  • Police boss meets vigilance groups

    Anambra State Police Commissioner Ballah Nasarawa will today address vigilance groups in the 177 communities in the state on the November 16 governorship election.

    This is the first time he will meet the groups and their divisional police officers (DPOs), The Nation learnt yesterday.

    Our reporter gathered that the meeting might not be unconnected with how they should conduct themselves during the poll.

    The meeting, it was learnt, would hold at the Cana House in Awka at 11am.

    When The Nation contacted police spokesman Emeka Chukwuemeka, he confirmed the event.

    But he denied that it was because of the forthcoming election. He explained that it was one of the routine meetings the command holds with the groups.

    Chukwuemeka said: “Vigilance groups are under the police in every state. We meet them regularly. If anybody tells you the meeting is because of the November 16 poll, that person is not telling the truth.”

  • Fuel subsidy protest: Court told how DPO shot Daramola

    A  Lagos High Court, Ikeja has been told how the dismissed Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Pen Cinema, Agege, Mr. Segun Fabunmi, shot at Adedamola Daramola and some fuel subsidy protesters on January 9 last year at Yaya Abatan, Ogba, Lagos.

    At the resumed trial of the DPO yesterday, two prosecution witnesses, Adekunle Alabi and Alimi Abubakar, accused Fabunmi of allegedly shooting at some fuel subsidy protesters.

    The witnesses levelled the allegation when testifying before the court presided over by Justice Olabisi Akinlade.

    Led in evidence by Mrs. Olabisi Ogungbesan, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Lagos State, Abubakar told the court how the incident happened.

    The witness recalled that he and other persons were reading newspapers at Yaya Abatan junction, Agege, when the policemen arrived in two patrol vehicles.

    Abubakar said when the team, which was led by the defendant, arrived about 8am, one of the officers shot into the air and towards the ground to scare people.

    He said Fabunmi, seeing this, moved to the officer and snatched the gun from him.

    The witness alleged that the defendant shot at the people at the junction including the deceased, Daramola.

    He said: “I can’t tell how many times he fired, but I was hit by a bullet on my leg.

    “Daramola was standing by my side and the bullet also injured him. He ran towards Abeokuta Street and I ran into a nearby mosque.”

    Abubakar claimed that from his hiding, he saw Fabunmi chasing Daramola and other people towards Abeokuta Street.

    The witness, however, admitted not seeing Fabunmi shoot Daramola because he was in a hiding.

    He said he was later taken by some boys with the injured Daramola to the Ifako General Hospital after the police left.

    According to him, Daramola died following the bullet wounds he sustained and he was referred to another hospital for treatment.

    Another witness, Alabi, who lives at 84, Yaya Abatan Street, said he saw Fabunmi snatch the gun from another policeman and he shot the protesters.

    The witness said the deceased, who was a tailor, was among the boys that were injured after the alleged shooting spree.

    “I saw everything from my house where I hid.

    “After the police left, I came out and I saw a bullet, which I gave to the traditional ruler (Baale) of the community.

    “Some policemen later took my statement and asked me to give evidence in court,” Alabi said.

    Fabunmi is standing trial before the court for the alleged murder of Daramola during the January 2012 protest against the removal of fuel subsidy.

    He was also charged with allegedly inflicting bodily harm on Abubakar and two other protesters, Egbujor Samuel and Chibuzo Udo, by shooting them.

    Justice Akinlade adjourned the matter till October 25 for continuation of trial.

  • Subsidy protest: How the dismissed DPO shot Daramola – Witnesses

    Subsidy protest: How the dismissed DPO shot Daramola – Witnesses

    A Lagos High Court, Ikeja, has been told that the dismissed Divisional Police Officer, Pen Cinema Police Station, Agege, Segun Fabunmi , shot at Adedamola Daramola and some fuel subsidy protesters on January 9, 2012 at Yaya Abatan in Ogba.

    At the resumed trial of the DPO on Tuesday, two prosecution witnesses, Adekunle Alabi and Alimi Abubakar accused Fabunmi of allegedly shooting at some fuel subsidy protesters.

    The witnesses made the allegation while testifying before the court presided by Justice Olabisi Akinlade.

    Led in evidence by Mrs. Olabisi Ogungbesan, the Director of Public Prosecutions, Lagos State, Abubakar told the court how the incident happened.

    The witness recalled that himself and some other persons were reading newspapers at Yaya Abatan Junction, Agege, when the policemen arrived in two patrol vehicles.

    Abubakar said that when the team which was led by the defendant arrived at about 8am, one of the officers started shooting in the air and towards the ground to scare people away.

    He said that Fabunmi, seeing this, moved to the officer and snatched the gun from him.

    The witness alleged that the defendant started shooting at the people, including the deceased at the junction.

    He said: “I can’t tell how many times he fired but I was hit by a bullet on my leg.

    “Daramola was standing by my side and the bullet also injured him. He ran towards Abeokuta Street while I ran into a nearby mosque.”

    Abubakar also claimed that from his hiding place in the mosque, he saw Fabunmi chasing Daramola and some other persons towards Abeokuta Street.

    The witness, however, admitted that he did not see the DPO shooting Daramola because he was in hiding.

  • DPO missing as Langtang toll hits 70

    The ethnic clash between Tarock and Fulani ethnic groups in Langtang South Local Government Area of Plateau State entered the fourth day yesterday.

    At least 70 people are said to have been killed in the communal violence.

    It was learnt that clashes were still raging in Borga, Karkashi and Magama villages, all in the local government.

    A Divisional Police Officer (DPO), who led his men to restore peace to the area, has been missing for three days.

    Some suspected armed Fulani militia invaded the three villages last week. They burnt down several homes and killed the residents before escaping.

    Over 70 bodies have been recovered while over 1,000 others have been displaced. Many of the displaced are taking refuge in public schools in the areas.

    Most of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) were said to be taking refuge at the LGEA Pilot Central Primary School, Mabudi in the local government area.

    Addressing the IDPs yesterday, a member of House of Representatives, representing Langtang North and Langtang, Beni Lar said besides the over 70 people who were killed, several others were still missing.

    The lawmaker described the attack as barbaric.

    He said the Fulani herdsmen, who allegedly invaded the three villages, intended to wipe out the villagers.

    She said: “From what I gathered, the Divisional Crime Officer (DCO) is still missing; 7,000 people displaced, while 70 people lost their lives.

    “The intention of the attackers was to wipe out the entire inhabitants of the villages for just no reason.”

    Lar urged the Federal Government to complete its roads in the area to open up the locality.

     

  • Husband of ‘killer DPO’ defends wife

    The husband of the Divisional Police Officer of Ogida Police Station, Adams Afegbai, has said his wife, Carol, was not responsible for the killing of a final year student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Ibrahim Momodu.

    Momodu was killed on May 27 while returning home and was buried at the 3rd cemetery by the police.

    Public outcry led to the exhumation of the body and it was discovered that the late Momodu was shot thrice from the back against the DPO’s initial statement that he was shot in the legs.

    Mrs. Afegbai had said he died on the way to the hospital.

    Adams, a retired police officer, said his wife was going on rounds when she ran into the interrogation of Ibrahim by policemen.

    He appealed to the government and the police authorities to ensure that justice was done, since the case has been forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

    He said what happened was a case of self-defence.

    “It is not true at all that my wife shot the boy. My wife was on visiting rounds of her men on duty.

    She was in her car when she saw her men interrogating the rider of an unregistered motorcycle.

    “There was another boy sitting behind. My wife noticed that boy was opening a bag.

    “He was loading a gun. When my wife sighted the gun, she shouted this boy is carrying a gun.

    “As she jumped out, a policeman shot at him. My wife did not shoot at anybody.

    “I will not comment on the action of the government but I know the police have taken the correct action although the action may have been very slow. Maybe they did not brief the governor on time, I will not know.”