Policeman Shot a 34-year-old man over N2,000 in Bayelsa.

A police officer attached to the Bayelsa State Police Command has shot a 34-year-old Adamu Mohammed in Yenagoa, the State capital over an argument on N2, 000 unpaid fees for a job done.

It was gathered that the incident happened last Tuesday.Trouble however started when Mohammed engaged a woman who had hired him to clear a piece of land close to her home at Erepa Road.

According to an eyewitness, the victim was shot in the thigh by the mobile policeman after an argument ensued over the amount to be paid for the job, adding that he shot the man to demobilise him.


Mohammed was said to have refused to report the case to the constituted authorities for fear of retaliation.

Mohammed who accused the woman who gave him the job of cheating said, “We agreed on N3, 000. But after I finished the work, she said she will pay N1, 000. I got angry and she called in some policemen guarding the home of a senior police officer on Erepa Road.

“The first person that came was a Civil Defence man and he claimed I stabbed him, and the mobile policeman, without asking questions, shot me in the thigh.”

It was further learnt that the policemen on duty at the residence of the undisclosed senior officer, appealed to the victim’s family not to lodge a formal complaint but should give them time to raise money for his treatment.

The family however noted that Mohammed has since been taken to Bauchi where he will receive traditional treatment.
The State police spokesman, Asimi Butswat, who claimed he was not aware of the incident, however stated that the action of the victim was suspicious and looks like a case of armed robbery.