A 21 year-old girl by name Fauziyya Sulaiman was
on Sunday shot dead in broad day light by
policemen on patrol in Unguwar Rimi,
Kaduna state.
The girl who lived with her parents in
Badarawa quarters was until her death a
Dental Therapy student at the School of
Science and Health Technology, Kaduna.
She was allegedly shot dead by a patrol
officer Ahmed Usman attached to the state
security outfit, Operation Yaki. She was said
to be waiting for a commercial tricycle at a
bus stop around 5pm after attending the
wedding ceremony of her friend when she
was shot dead by the police.
The police inspector Ahmed Usman attached
to the patrol team allegedly opened fire on
the girl. The bullet reportedly went through
her bowels and hit another man named
Malam Hassan in the leg.
Late Fauziyya’s father, Alhaji AbdulRazak
Muhammad Sulaiman who lives in
Badarawa Kaduna said the family was
devastated and at a loss why a policeman
who ought to protect his daughter ended up
killing her. He said the mother of the
deceased Amina Mohammed was still dumb
struck and “utterly puzzled.” Sulaiman, who
works with the Kaduna State Ministry of
Education vowed to take legal action against
the police.
He said when he visited the Military
Reference hospital where her daughter was
taken to; one of the officers on patrol told
him that she was shot by an inspector who
was in the patrol team. “I went and met the inspector with a name tag displaying Ahmed Usman and asked him why he killed my daughter, but he could not talk. He eventually confessed that he shot her by mistake,” he said.
The police spokesman in Kaduna Aminu Lawan confirmed the incident. He said Fauziyya was hit by a stray bullet which was fired by the patrol team. He said the officers attempted to disperse some reckless motorcycle riders at the wedding ground. “But youths started throwing pebbles at the officers before they fired. The girl was hit by the bullet and one other person sustained minor injury,” Lawan said. He said the entire six patrol officers have been arrested and an investigation has commenced to determine why they fired.
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