POLICE INSPECTOR MOBBED TO DEATH FOR SHOOTING PASSENGER
The Police Command in Adamawa State has confirmed that a mob killed a police inspector on Thursday along the Wuro-Dole-Pariya Road in Girei Local Government area of the state. The command’s Spokesman, SP Othman Abubakar, said the incident occurred following a misunderstanding between some passengers and a routine patrol team along the road. 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 the passenger. He said the late inspector was mobbed to death, adding that the police had recovered his corpse and gun with eight rounds of live ammunition. An eyewitness, who simply identified himself as Sadiq, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the incident followed a disagreement over a N50 bribe. According to him, the driver of the vehicle in which the late passenger was travelling in offered a N50 bribe to the policemen