Mr Emeka Ani, a photographer whose sales girl was killed by a detachment of Policemen attached to FCT at NEPA junction, Apo was yesterday in tears when LEADERSHIP team visited the scene of the incidence.
Mr Ani who is still in shock over the untimely death of his sales girl, Lucy, 20, said the uncruel treatment by security-men meted on unarmed residents of the FCT, Abuja should not go unpunish.
When LEADERSHIP visited the shop, it was sealed and residents were seen in groups discussing how this inhuman incident occurred.
Speaking with an elderly man, a resident, who crave anonymity said it wasn’t a scene that human beings could stand and watch because they came with weapons as if they wanted to fight a common criminal. “Why should people take laws into their hands. They came to this place as if they want to fight war.
“ They started shooting sporadically I ran forgetting that I’m an old man but later took cover when I crossed this gate. But they came to that place and tried to shoot the gate but the bullet hit the wall of the fence.”
“Its very sad that we are been treated like this being”. He said.
But not for the fury looking Mr Ani, who is still in shock after the death of his sales girl.
In an exclusive interview with LEADERSHIP reporters. The already sorrowful Mr Ani said he is yet to come to terms with what happened in his shop.
“ After their commander asked them to go back to their duty post when he had about the unlicensed invasion, they left and later came back only to open fire. We ad to take to our heels.
“ Unfortunately for my girl, she was in the shop with my boy that was when the gun got through the glass and hit her on the chest and she died before even getting to the hospital. Lucy my sales is dead. We have informed the family, they will be in town anytime from next week, then we will know the next action to take. He also showed the reporters his sealed shop and the bullet wind screen.
His boy Biodum Alabi who was also hurt during the incident stated that he was in the shop when Lucy was shot.
“I was outside when SARS come, about three of them, came and one shoot. I? ran to take covered but I saw that the bullet hit Lucy after it brush me on the hand and she was? shaking for sometime? before she was rush to Garki hospital.
The bone of contention is whether the resident would allow the incident to die off even when the indigenes are not relenting to fight on or to take up the case to its logical conclusion.
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