The Bayelsa Police Command on Sunday said that it is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of the innocent man, whose name was not give, and who was shot in error by police while responding to a distress call.
Mr. Asinim Butswat, a Deputy Superintendent of Police and Police Spokesman, in a statement issued in Yenagoa said that one of the three people shot in error on Saturday died in the hospital.
Butswat, who said that investigation into the incident had commenced said that the policeman who fired the shot was immediately identified and taken into custody.
According to him, “On the 22 October 2016, at about 1730 hours, Policemen from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, responded to a distress call of cult attack at Ekeki village, Yenagoa.
“The policemen were ambushed by the cultist.
“Consequently, a Police Sergeant fired, the bullet ricocheted, and injured three persons who were unfortunately not among the cultists.
“The victims were rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, for treatment and one of them later died.
“The sergeant who fired the shot has been detained. Investigation is ongoing.”
The tragedy is coming barely two months after the Bayelsa State Police Command killed Master Innocent Kokorifa, 17, in cold blood. The 17-year-old Innocent, the first of five children of Mr. Daniel Kokorifa, an official of the Federal Road Safety Corps, was shot dead in a mysterious circumstance by the police Anti-Vice/Anti-Kidnapping team along Airforce Road in Yenagoa, on August 18, 2016 and also buried on Saturday in Yenagoa.
