SARS operative kills teenager in Yobe

A SARs operative yesterday shot and killed a teenager, Faruq Olaruwajo, along Potiskum highway, Damaturu, the Yobe State capital.

Daily Trust reports that the incident happened around 8:00am when the police team on routine stop and search shot the commercial car conveying the 14-year-old boy and his mother to Maiduguri.

The Police Commissioner, Yobe State Command, Abdumaliki Sunmonu confirmed the shooting, saying the commercial car driver refused to stop for search and the officer shot at the car and unintentionally killed the boy.

“The driver was on very high speed and refused to stop for search and the vehicle had no plate number. The driver escaped and returned after an hour with the boy bleeding. He later died at the Hospital.

Stressing that the policeman should not have killed the boy, CP said, “The SARS operative that shot the boy, and the car driver have been detained to allow careful investigation.”

Similarly, the Police Commissioner has confirmed the protest by Keke NAPEP operators that took to the street over the arrest of their 14 members for violating 6pm to 6am curfew by the police.

The angry protesters, who attempted to forcefully free their members from the police cell, blocked the market road, along Kwanan Gadara junction, Muhammad Idrissa Way in Potiskum town.

When contacted, the Chairman, Keke NAPEP Riders Association in Potiskum, Sani Garba Maikifi, said he was beaten by the angry tricycle protesters while trying to stop the protest.