Update on Robbery Victim Shot by Policemen Story

Doctors at Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja are battling to save the life of a security guard, Joshua Musa, who was shot by policemen after a robbery at a house in Ikota, Lagos, on Saturday.

Joshua, 22, who could not speak when our correspondent visited him at the surgical emergency ward on Monday, was shot in the left side of the chest and abdomen by the policemen, who responded to a distress call when armed robbers stormed the house.

Joshua had a pipe passed to the two entry wounds in his chest and abdomen.
The security guard’s brother, Nuhu, who also witnessed the incident, said the five policemen started shooting sporadically immediately they came into the compound after the robbers had left.

“They came about one hour after the robbers were gone. The policemen were shooting at anything that moved,” he said.

Nuhu said Joshua was running towards where he took cover when he was shot.

He said, “Where I was when the shooting started was a little safe, but when Joshua realised that they started shooting at the residents, he ran to join me.

“But a policeman sighted him, turned and fired in his direction. He was hit twice.”

One of the bullets was said to have gone through Joshua’s chest and went out of his back. The second one was lodged in his abdomen but removed in the hospital.

Nuhu said another tenant, Femi Badejo, a banker, pleaded with the policemen that he was a tenant in the house but they shot at him and when he hid under a car, they kept shooting at him.

According to him, a woman who offered to show the policemen her room just to assure them she resided in the house was also shot but the bullet only grazed her head.

Joshua’s uncle, Adamu Askira, was seething in anger at the hospital, saying the policemen acted irresponsibly.

Culled from PUNCH