The Nigeria Correctional Service has acquitted its officer, Usman Magaji, who shot one Ibrahim Yahaya, ensuing within the civil unrest and gang motion seen on the standard Wuse Market in Abuja on Tuesday.
The Police Public Relations Officer, FCT Command, Josephine Adeh, mentioned the late Yahaya, convicted by a Federal Capital Territory cell courtroom, was being taken to jail when he jumped out of the automobile and tried to flee earlier than he was shot.
“Preliminary investigations revealed that Ibrahim Yahaya, '27 years previous', was apprehended by operatives of the Abuja Environmental Safety Board Activity Power and introduced earlier than a cell courtroom that meets each Tuesday at Wuse Market and convicted.
“The suspect was being taken to jail together with others when he allegedly jumped out of the automobile and chased after him in an try to flee. Two armed corrections officers who had been within the automobile chased him down and shot him. The mentioned Ibrahim Yahaya was instantly rushed to a close-by hospital the place docs on the scene confirmed that he was useless,” she mentioned.
In consequence, protesters attacked a police station and set fireplace to some automobiles on the standard Wuse Market in Abuja.
Reacting, the spokesperson of NCoS FCT Command, Adamu Duza, in an announcement obtained by our correspondent on Wednesday, described the incident as unlucky.
Nevertheless, Duza said that the official acted inside the limits of the regulation to forestall the prisoner from escaping.
The assertion learn: “The Nigerian Correctional Service needs to condole with the household of the deceased inmate who was shot by personnel of an armed squad at Wuse in Abuja, FCT on Tuesday, March 12, 2024.
“The incidence that led to pandemonium round Wuse in FCT is unlucky and regrettable. Nevertheless, you will need to observe that employees acted inside the limits of the regulation to forestall the inmate from escaping.
“Part 20 of the Nigerian Correctional Service Act 2019 provides correctional officers the ability to make use of firearms to remove an escaping inmate. It’s unlucky that within the technique of eliminating the mentioned escapee he misplaced his life.”
He sympathized with Nigerians who suffered losses on account of the Wuse market incident.
The spokesperson mentioned: “The Nigerian Correctional Service assures the general public of the secure custody of all these legally interned in addition to humane remedy of all prisoners in custody.
“The Service needs to sympathize with all those that have suffered losses on account of the pandemonium that adopted.”
