The Bayelsa State
Police Command has arrested a Police Corporal named David Napoleon for
shooting dead a 13- year- old boy identified as Tomizibe Joseph in
Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital.....
According to
investigations the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Asuquo Amba gave the
directive for the arrest and detention of the Police corporal identified
as David Napoleon to douse the tension triggered by the death of
Joseph.
Though there is
controversy over the actual age of the deceased but based on Amba’s
orders, Napoelon has been disarmed and detained pending the conclusion
of investigation.
Saturday Sun
gathered that Napoleon had been confronted by some cultists around the
Kpansia area and while he was trying to escape from an irate crowd
chasing him he shot to dispel the crowd and the bullet hit the deceased.
Attempts by the
angry crowd to abduct a traffic warden as retaliation for the killing of
Joseph was foiled by the caretaker Chairman of Yenagoa Local Government
Area, Mr. Oforji Oboko.
The State Police
Command, through its spokesperson, Asinim Butswat confirmed the incident
and claimed that deceased was 18-years-old and the incident occurred
while Napoleon was being chased by irate youths of the community and
suspected cultists.
“The incident
occurred Thursday night after six armed cultists invaded the home of
Corporal David Napoleon at Kpansia area of the state capital.
The suspected and
armed cultists tore the window net and gained entrance into the home.
The officer, who was home with his family, ran after the hoodlums and
arrested one Stephen Ayama, male, 16 years and a member of the
Greenlander cult group.
He was handed over
to the state security outfit known as Door Akpo. When he was coming
back to his house with a plan to move his family out to a safer place,
some suspected cultists and indigenes of the community went after him to
attack him.
He ran but was
chased by the irate youths. He turned and shot at them below the knee
level. The bullet hit one Tombozide Joseph on the thigh. He was rushed
to the Federal Medical Centre.”
The Ijaw Youths
Council (IYC), led by the Chairman of the Central Zone , Comrade Tare
Porri, however faulted the claims of the police after consulting with
the Investigating Officer and family of the deceased boy.
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