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| Victim: Asuquo on hospital bed.... |
Narrating the incident, the
victim’s father, Chief Nta Asuquo, said his son, Master Asuquo Nta Asuquo, an SS II pupil of
Government Science School, Henshaw Town, Calabar South, was shot by one
of the members of a team of anti-robbery policemen from Efut Division,
who stormed his compound to
arrest his daughter.
He said, “My son’s ordeal started at about 2 pm on that
fateful day when a team of anti-robbery policemen from Efut Division
stormed my residence at 90, Edibe-Edibe Road, Calabar South, in a
commando style to arrest one of my daughters, Miss Martha Asuquo, on a
trumped up allegation of threatening the live of one of the neighbours.
“On arriving at the compound with a police pick-up van,
the fierce-looking officers requested to arrest my daughter for
allegedly assaulting one of the neighbours, a lady. I obliged.
“I was made to understand that my daughter had a
misunderstanding with the lady, who decided to use her contacts with the
police to arrest my daughter.
“When they came my daughter, Martha, was just coming out
from the bathroom and the policemen insisted that she should follow
them to the station. She pleaded with them to let her dress properly
since she had just emerged from the bathroom.”
“In spite of the my pleading, the policemen refused and
it was at that point that my son, Asuquo, now intervened and pleaded
further with them to allow her sister wear her clothes so that she can
follow them for interrogation. One of them quickly told my son to keep
clear or he would shot him.
“But my son kept pleading with the policemen to allow
his sister to dress up properly since she was just coming out from the
bathroom. He (my son) told the policemen that it was not wise to drag
her into the van with only wrapper around her waist and perhaps they
felt provoked by my son’s insistence and opened fire on his leg.”
In an emotion-laden tone, Asuquo, said the leader of the
team on seeing that his son was bleeding profusely ordered his men out
of the compound and they jumped into their van and ran away.
However, he said with the help of the people around he
was able to identify the officer that shot his son as Asuquo Ekpo with
Force No 169385.
Weeping profusely, the father of the victim said, “I
can’t imagine my son lying critically down at the University of Calabar
Teaching Hospital; I can’t believe that at this tender age my son’s leg
will be cut off as a result of bullets fire by police. “Life to me now is meaningless unless that police
officer who shot my son is brought to book. Please, I want justice to be
done because my son’s life can’t just be wasted for nothing.
In his reaction to the matter, the state Police Public
Relations Officer, Mr. Hogan Bassey, said, “We are aware of the
incident. The victim was said to have resisted arrest. For now, the
police are looking into the matter and very soon will make its findings
public.”.....[investigation ongoing as usual]
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