A soldier in Maiduguri, Borno State, has been arrested for killing a UNIIMAID graduate and making away with the young man's car.
A Nigerian soldier who is supposed to protect the citizens turned his guns on a young man just to steal his car
A
criminally minded soldier of the Nigerian Army, in Maiduguri, Borno State, has allegedly
murdered a graduate of Physics from University of Maiduguri who gave him a ride and made away with the youth's car.
According to the
Vanguard Newspaper,
the incident occurred after the military man flagged down the deceased
to give him a ride, but later shot him dead before reaching his point of
disembarkation and made away with the deceased car.
Speaking
to journalists in Maiduguri, the father of the deceased, Alhaji Konto
Sulum, said the soldier asked his son, Mohammed, to give him a lift so
he could reach his destination, but lamented that before reaching his
destination, the soldier shot him dead and ran away with his car.
He lamented:
The
soldier who thought he was dead, dragged his body out of the car and
zoomed off with it. My son crawled down to the roadside, near Asita
Hotel at Bolori, where a good Samaritan called the attention of Civilian
JTF and they tried to rush him to the hospital but he gave up the ghost
before reaching the hospital.
But before
my son died, he informed the Civilian JTF that he was shot by a soldier
who ran away with his car. The next day, his friend saw the soldier and
his friend at Oando filling station on Baga road with the car, where
they alerted Civilian JTF and they were arrested.
According
to the grieving father, his 22-year-old son has just graduated from the
physics department of the University of Maiduguri and was waiting for
his call-up letter for NYSC.
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