The Nigeria Correctional Service has exonerated its officjal, Usman Magaji, who shot one Ibrahim Yahaya, ensuing within the civil unrest and mob motion witnessed on the widespread Wuse Market in Abuja on Tuesday.
The Police Public Relations Officer, FCT Command, Josephine Adeh, stated late Yahaya, having been convicted by a Federal Capital Territory cellular court docket, was being taken to jail when he jumped off the car and tried to flee earlier than he was shot.
“Preliminary investigation revealed that one Ibrahim Yahaya ‘27 years’ was apprehended by operatives of the Abuja Environmental Safety Board Job Power and was taken earlier than a cellular court docket which sits each Tuesday in Wuse Market, and he was convicted.
“Suspect alongside others had been being conveyed to the jail when he reportedly jumped from the car and took to his heels in an try to flee. Two armed corrections personnel who had been within the car went after him and within the course of, shot him. The stated Ibrahim Yahaya was instantly rushed to a close-by hospital the place medical doctors on the bottom confirmed him useless,” she stated.
Consequently, protesters attacked a police station and set some vehicles on hearth on the widespread Wuse Market in Abuja.
Reacting, the spokesperson NCoS FCT Command, Adamu Duza, in an announcement obtained by our correspondent on Wednesday described the incident as unlucky.
Duza nevertheless acknowledged that the officjal acted throughout the precinct of the regulation to forestall the inmate from escaping.
The assertion learn “The Nigerian Correctional Service needs to condole with the household of the deceased inmate who was shot by an armed squad personnel on Tuesday, twelfth March, 2024, at Wuse in Abuja, FCT.
“The incidence which led to pandemonium round Wuse in FCT is unlucky and regretted. Nonetheless, you will need to word that the personnel acted throughout the precinct of the regulation to forestall the inmate from escaping.
“Part 20 of the Nigerian Correctional Service Act 2019 empowers correctional officers to make use of firearm to disable an escaping inmate. It’s unlucky that within the means of disabling the stated escapee, he misplaced his life.”.
He sympathised with Nigerians who incurred losses on account of the incident on the Wuse Market.
The spokesperson acknowledged, “The Nigerian Correctional Service is assuring the general public of the secure and safe custody of all these legally interned in addition to humane remedy of all inmates in its custody.
“The Service needs to sympathise with all those that incurred losses on account of the pandemonium that adopted.”
