Abia Lockdown: Police Gun Down Fuel Attendant

A trigger happy police inspector identified as Mr Stanley Asu, and leader of the police team from Ohuru Isimiri police station on patrol to enforce the lockdown had allegedly shot dead, a fuel pump Attendant identified as Chibuisi who worked at the green mark energy filling station located along new umuahia road in the commercial city, aba.

It was said that the young man was gunned down while trying to intercede for a customer who was accosted by a police enforcement team for violating the lockdown order of Abia state government to curb the spread of coronavirus in the state.

According to eye witness account who identified himself as, Dr Cyril Irobi, “a customer had driven into the filling station on Sunday afternoon and bought fuel but on his way out, a police patrol team stopped him for violating the stay at home order of the state government.”

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The victim was said to have been shot in the waist with the bullet piercing his pelvic bone horizontally and he was dead on getting to the hospital.

The state’s police public relations officer, Geoffrey Ogbonna, who confirmed the sad event when contacted on phone, said that the shooting was “not a deliberate act, but an accidental discharge”.

He said that the police had launched an investigation to unravel the circumstances that led to the fatal shooting of the young male fuel attendant.

Others who witnessed the incident said that the police team had attempted to escape when they realised that the gunshot was fatal but the soldiers around the scene stopped them.