Despite the nationwide protest against the Nigerian Police Force, NPF, for the unprovoked murder of Johnson Kolade last week Sunday, another innocent man, Mr. Odeh Stephen has been shot dead by the Police on Thursday along Ahoada axis of East-West Road, Rivers State, Sahara Reporters has stated.
Stephen, a 29 year old commercial driver hailed from Sagbama Local Council Area of Bayelsa and worked at Ekeki Motor Park in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa state capital.
SaharaReporters gathered that the driver was killed at a checkpoint after he alighted for a ”stop and search".
”He stopped at a checkpoint and he came out. While walking towards the policemen, one of them shot at him. And, that was it. However, it is good to hear that the colleagues of the guy who shot the deceased arrested him immediately," a witness to the attack said.
Another source told Sahara Reporters that the deceased is an expectant father whose wife is eight months pregnant.
”It occurred between Ahoada and Mbiama in Rivers State. Incidentally, information has it that both the 29-year-old deceased and the policeman are from Sagbama Local Government Area of Bayelsa State," he said.
"Now, how to break the sad and unfortunate incident to the eight months pregnant wife of the deceased is a problem.”
Efforts to speak with Nnamdi Omoni, the Public Relations Officer of the Rivers State Police Command, were unsuccessful as he neither responsed to calls or messages from SaharaReporters.
Johnson Kolade was shot dead by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad in a similar fashion in Lagos last week Sunday.
The killing of Kolade has sparked off wide condemnation of Police Brutality across the country. On Friday in Lagos, a group of Human Rights Defenders and angry Nigerians stormed the street in protest against Police Brutality, demanding that the Police should stop harassing and killing innocent people.
The Social Media has also been saturated with agitations against police Brutality. The #EndSARS #EndPolicebrutality #ReformPoliceNG and #ReformSARS campaigns are very prominent on Twitter.
Despite these ceaseless campaigns, the NPF has continued to unleash mayhem on innocent Nigerian Citizens, whom it is their responsibility to protect.
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