A Rivers State High Court has sentenced
one Inspector Samuel Timothy of the Nigeria Police to death by hanging
for shooting and killing a sachet water dealer, Onyekachi Nwasouba.
The court’s ruling is coming about five
years after Nwasouba was murdered by the police at about 5am on November
10, 2010 at No. 34, Old Aba Road, Port Harcourt.
Nwasouba, who was a graduate of
Industrial Chemistry, was branded an armed robber by the police while he
was on his way to distribute his.......
products to customers within the Port
Harcourt metropolis.
The deceased was shot dead by a team of
policemen, led by Timothy, at the front of his residence, even after he
(Nwasouba) shouted to the hearing of the policemen that he was only a
pure water producer and not an armed robber.
Delivering his judgment on Monday, the
trial judge, Justice Adolphus Enebeli, declared that the convict
(Timothy) demonstrated an act of inhumanity through his action.
The judge said that based on the
testimonies of witnesses, including members of the patrol team in the
case, the convict was an “inhuman, trigger-happy policeman, who engages
in murder; a hater of humankind and a merciless killer.”
Explaining
that the killing of the sachet water seller by the convict was
deliberate, Justice Enebeli, maintained that Timothy should die by
hanging.
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