According to the Nation, a
twenty year-old security man, Meshack Samuel, has been arrested by operatives
of the Lagos State Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for shooting himself.
The police described the
incident as “robbers’ accidental discharge. Samuel is being detained for
alleged illegal possession of fire arm. His action led to the arrest of his
friends in Awoyaya Street, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos.
According to the command’s
spokesperson, Ken Nwosu, the suspects were arrested following complaints by
people, who alerted them on hearing the sound of gunshot.
Samuel told reporters that
he ran into trouble when he asked a friend to help get a gun for protection
from hoodlums and cult boys.
“After relocating from Abuja to Lagos, I got a
job as a security man from Threeshat Guard Security Company; the company posted
me to Coscharis Motors on a monthly salary of N18, 500.
“My trouble started when I
told my friend Adams that I needed a gun to protect myself from the menace of
the hoodlums and cult boys in Awoyaya. He brought one Double Barrel gun and
said he would sell it for N20, 000 and I told him that I don’t have such amount
of money. He later promised to exchange it with my laptop which cost more than
the gun. When he brought the gun, I tried to test it to know whether it was
working, I just heard gbosa and my right hand started bleeding profusely. I knew
I have shot myself.
Adams took me to General
Hospital and told the doctor that I was shot by some hoodlums in Awoyaya who he
claimed to be cult boys. The doctor told us to bring a police report before he
could treat me. Adams rushed to Elemoro Police Station.
.
“Surprisingly, as we
entered the police station, we saw one of our neighbours there who went to
report us. He pointed at us and told police ‘that is the man, see his bullet
wound.’ Police quickly arrested us and transferred us to SARS.
“When the SARS asked me
what I intended to do with a gun, I told them that I wanted to defend myself
from cult boys. Thereafter, they searched Adams’ house and recovered the gun
with two kitchen knives. There, SARS officers arrested Emmanuel.”
Emmanuel, who also works as
a security man guarding MTN Mast, said he picked the gun from bush.
“I later dropped it but
Adams said he would take it. When I heard that they were arrested, I went to
police as a good friend to know why they were arrested. There, Adams told the
police that I was the one who gave him the gun which I accepted,” he said.
Adams said he was arrested
for trying to help a friend.
“I am a security man
opposite Mayfair at Awoyaya area. Police arrested me because I had a gun I
wanted to sell to solve my family problem. I did not rob with the gun. I needed
money desperately and it is only the gun that has value to give me the change
(N20, 000) I desperately needed. I am not an armed robber but a business man
trying to help a friend,” he said.
The Nation
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