Police Shoot 17-Year-Old Boy In The Abdomen During Festival
Police Shoot 17-Year-Old Boy In The Abdomen During Festival
-Odunayo Ajani
Police Shoot 17-Year-Old Boy In The Abdomen During Festival
A 17-year-old boy, Arinze Obigbo, has allegedly been shot in the abdomen by the police while celebrating the Mgbe-Agbogho festival of Ogidi last weekend.
The Police in Anambra State has detained eight mobile policemen serving at Ogidi in Idemili North Local Government Area of the state for the alleged shooting.
According to the reports we gathered, eight policemen were said to have been deployed to Ugwunwasike roundabout close to where the Mgbe-Agbogho was holding after one of the policemen shot the boy and they were all arrested by police authorities in the Division.
The President-General of Ogidi town union, Chief Chuka- Jideofor Onubogu made this known to newsmen adding “that the DPO in charge of Ogidi Police Division, Mr. Mark Ijarafu, played a fatherly role, and ordered the arrest and detention of the mobile policemen involved in the incident.
“There is no justifiable reason to shoot a boy of that age, while they were celebrating the Mgbe-Agbogho festival to herald the arrival of the popular Nwafor Ogidi festival.
“The eight policemen did not manage the situation well when the youths, with their masquerades, were in the roundabout celebrating and displaying youthful exuberance. “I was informed the Police started firing into the air to scare them and as they were running helter-skelter, Obigbo was being pursued by one of the policemen and he fell, the policeman shot him in the abdomen. But on sensing danger, all the policemen ran away.
“When the DPO got the information, he quickly took the boy to Mayor Hospital and from where he was transferred to Multicare Hospital. However, the boy is responding to treatment when he went to see him at the hospital.”
After newsmen visited Multicare Hospital at Umunya Street Omagba Phase 2, Dr. S. Ilochi, the Medical Director, confirmed that the boy had a bullet wound, but that he is responding to treatment.
All effort to reach the Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO) proved abortive.
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