The
trigger police officer who brutally gunned down an innocent 16-year-old
boy has been arrested as the victim's friends speak on the matter.
Obinna Iwuoha was brutally murdered by a trigger-happy police officer
The last has not been heard of the alleged brutal murder of an innocent 16-year-old boy, Obinna Iwuoha who was gunned down by a Police Sergeant, Wilson Ufere in Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State last week Thursday.
Survivors who witnessed the shocking drama have recounted how it
all happened. In a report by Punch, Chukwuebuka Donatus, 24; and
Tochukwu Uzoukwu, 25, on Friday while on their hospital beds in Orodo,
Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state shortly after waking up from
coma, said the trigger-happy policeman shot the teenager at a close
range, killing him instantly.
Uzoukwu, a fresh graduate of Imo State university, Owerri, who
spoke with pain, lamented that the killing of the senior secondary one
boy was the most gruesome incident he had ever witnessed.
He said, “I saw with my two eyes as the Police officer released
the bullet that killed the young boy instantly. He shot directly at a
close range, which terminated his life.”
Tochukwu Uzoukwu
Uzoukwu, who said he had gone to the farm to drive his ailing
mother home before stopping to witness the altercation between the
Police officers who were at the place for a road duty and a group of
youths, mostly teenagers, said the Police officer who killed the lad and
also shot three others, including himself, was not the one who had the
heated arguments with the teenagers who were on a church procession that
Thursday evening.
He said, “The Police officer who shot us was not at the scene
of the argument. He was not in the picture at all. He was at the other
side of the road and only crossed the tarred road to shoot Obinna dead
before injuring three of us with the careless bullets he shot
ceaselessly at the teenagers and those of us at the other side of the
road.”
Uzoukwu, who writhed in pain as he spoke, asserted that the
Sergeant, together with his colleagues, abandoned him and the other
victims to die and made off with Obinna’s corpse.
On how he found himself in the hospital, Uzoukwu, who cried
uncontrollably as he spoke, said the injury he sustained from the
shooting could stop him from participating in the National Youth Service
Corps next batch.
Another survivor, Donatus, whose father is currently in the
mortuary, disclosed that he was called by the teenagers to bring money
for them to repair a flat tyre, but he and the commercial motorcyclist
who took him there became victims of the shooting spree.
While he was shot on his two legs, Donatus said the motorcyclist
who was still in a coma in an undisclosed hospital as of the time of
filing this report, was shot in the stomach.
The doctor who is handling the victims’ bone fractures told our
correspondent that it would take a minimum of three months for the
survivors to start walking.
Chukwuebuka Donatus
When our correspondent visited the family home of the late
teenager, the mother, Catherine Iwuoha, a widow, accused the Police
officers of deliberately killing her son.
Flanked by her other children and sympathisers, the widow, who was
inconsolable, said her son went to the church rally from school on her
approval.
When contacted, the Police spokesperson in the state, Andrew
Enwerem, said the Sergeant was already in their custody and did not run
away as speculated.
Enwerem said Ufere would be tried and if found guilty would be
dismissed from the Force before being tried in the court of law for
murder.
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