N50 bribe: Police inspector lynched for shooting passenger

A police inspector who shot and killed a passenger has been lynched by a mob  in Adamawa State. Spokesman of the Adamawa Police Command, SP Othman Abubakar, said the incident occurred following a misunderstanding between some passengers and a patrol team along Wuro-Dole-Pariya road in Girei Local Government Area of the state. Abubakar, who did […]

A police inspector who shot and killed a passenger has been lynched by a mob  in Adamawa State.

Spokesman of the Adamawa Police Command, SP Othman Abubakar, said the incident occurred following a misunderstanding between some passengers and a patrol team along Wuro-Dole-Pariya road in Girei Local Government Area of the state.

Abubakar, who did not give details of the “misunderstanding”, simply said that it led to the deceased opening fire which resulted in the killing of a passenger.

He said the late inspector was descended upon by a mob, adding that the police had recovered his corpse and gun with eight rounds of live ammunition.

A witness, who simply identified himself as Sadiq, said the incident followed a disagreement over a N50 bribe.

According to him, the driver of the vehicle in which the late passenger was travelling offered a N50 bribe to the policemen but they insisted on collecting N100.

He said that a passenger challenged them and that led to a hot argument and the shooting of the passenger and wounding of another by the inspector.

“Angered by what happened, a mob attacked the inspector who was trying to escape and lynched him,” Sadiq said.