Anas Wada, a resident of Gusau, the capital of Zamfara state, who was planning to go home after Sunday evening prayers and hang out with friends, landed at a hospital where he is being treated for gunshot wounds after a police shot him twice. disagreement.
“At around 7:15 pm, Anas (Mr. Wada) was sitting with some older friends and colleagues when one of his bosses asked him to go to a tea stall and place an order. When he crossed the road next to the Unity restaurant, Anas told the tea vendor the message from his boss and was turning around when the policeman, who was sitting on one of the benches waiting for his order, asked him to stop talking. with the tea seller. Mr. Ahmed said.
Mr. Wada, a medical health worker at the state-owned Farida General Hospital, told the policeman that he was not there to collect anything but to place an order.
“The policeman was dressed as a mufti, but he was holding a rifle. Then, he stood up and started yelling at my cousin, saying that since he met several people there, he shouldn’t have said anything to the tea seller, but wait his turn. My cousin turned to leave but the policeman dragged him away and kept insulting him,” he told Newslodge in a series of phone conversations in which he explains how his Mr. Wada was shot.
mugging and shooting
He claimed that Mr. Wada, 40, did not respond to the harassment but tried to leave the scene, but the policeman was relentless.
“When the policeman said he thought my brother was saying something else, my cousin said he didn’t say anything but replied that he was just delivering a message to the tea vendor. Then the policeman said that if he had said anything else, he would have beaten him mercilessly. So, my brother replied that he couldn’t beat him because he hadn’t done anything wrong. The tea seller and other customers were already trying to defuse the tension when the policeman started beating him and my cousin retaliated,” he said.
Ahmed said the policeman used the butt of the rifle to hit Wada on the head.
“When he (Mr. Wada) held his head in his hands because blood was gushing out of it, the policeman started shooting. He fired five times, but only two bullets hit Anas in her thigh. We believe the other shots were meant to scare people,” said Ahmed, who is at the Gusau Federal Medical Center with Wada.
He said that his colleagues took Mr. Wada to the hospital.
“Some policemen came to the hospital and took a statement from Anas (Mr. Wada). They said that the policeman had been arrested, and the CP (Police Commissioner) has also been informed,” he said.
Police spokesman in the state, Mohammed Shehu, did not reply to an SMS sent to him about the incident. His phone number was inaccessible for over an hour.