•The victims: Okoh and Adesina
A police officer in Lagos has been arrested and charged to court after he allegedly shot and innocent driver and his passenger.Nelson Bassey, a corporal who has since been dismissed, is said to have injured one Andrew Okoh and his passenger, Isaac Adesina, with his AK47 rifle due to their refusal to give him a bribe.
Bassey initially claimed that the victims were armed robbers until the truth was discovered and he was apprehended and charged with the crime.
| Reportedly, Bassey’s trial began Monday at the Lagos Magistrate’s Court sitting in Ejigbo, Lagos State, western Nigeria. The shooting led to protest by residents of the area who insisted that the victims were not robbers and were well known in Idimu area where the incident happened. Bassey was immediately dismissed from the Nigeria Police for unjustly shooting the victims.
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He was consequently arrested and charged before the court with assault and inflicting injury on the victims under the Criminal Code.
During the trial, Okoh told the court that Bassy shot their legs with an AK47 rifle after they explained to the police patrol team that demanded for a bribe that they had no money to bribe them.
Okoh informed the court that he was the driver of the bus and Adesina was among the passengers in the bus when Bassey shot them.
He narrated that they were not robbers but were in a traffic jam which made them get to their Idimu home late.
| He said that on their way home, a team of Rapid Response Squad, RSS, policemen stopped them and demanded for a bribe. Okoh explained that after politely telling them that they had no money on them,“the next thing we saw was Corporal Bassey pointing his AK 47 rifle at us and opening fire on our legs, claiming that we were suspected robbers and that we were trying to escape.” While testifying in the court, Adesina told the court that he boarded the bus as a passenger and was going home late because of traffic jam. |
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