A middle-aged man, identified as Oguzie Nmezi, was on Saturday reportedly killed by the police while on his way to a wedding in Imo State.
A statement released by Chinedu Agu, Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association, Owerri chapter, said the deceased was driving a Toyota Camry with registration number WER 212 SQ along Umuaka/Orodo when he shot dead by policemen of the Stop and Search Squad.
The statement said, “On realising that they have shot the deceased, the police took flight, abandoning the deceased in the pool of his own blood inside his car.
“The deceased, a native of Amucha in Njaba, L.G.A., Imo State, left home enroute Owerri for a wedding before he met his untimely death in the hands of trigger-happy policemen this morning.
“As at the time of typing this report, the deceased, whose family members believed was still alive, still lay in his car unattended by the hospital staff.
“It took some angry agitation by youths and sympathisers who came thirty minutes after my arrival for the bulky man to be stretchered into the Emergency Ward from his blood-drenched car.
“While the tardy, laissez-faire, callous attitude of the hospital staff in the Accident/Emergency Ward of FMC Owerri is condemnable, I humbly call on the Human Rights Committee of the NBA Owerri to rise up to the occasion in ensuring that the culprits of this heinous act are unearthed and brought to book.”
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