The household of Abdulmalik Abubakar and Ibrahim Abdullahi, two Nigerian brothers, who had been allegedly Shot by members of a vigilance group within the Bobota/Dabi Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, have spoken up.
The household urged the Police to probe the incident.
A sister to the victims, Jemilah, who spoke with Punch Metro correspondent on Wednesday, Mentioned the household needed justice, including that the police had not completed sufficient since her brothers had been shot on Sunday.
PUNCH Metro had reported on Tuesday that the brothers had been sleeping of their room on Sunday, July 9, when members of the vigilance group invaded the premises and began capturing.
It was learnt that one of many bullets hit the 2 brothers within the leg and lap respectively and in a bid to rescue them, the duo had been rushed to the hospital for remedy.
Contacted, one of many alleged culprits, recognized merely as Abdulkareem, had mentioned he was a part of the vigilance members however denied being a part of the crew that shot the victims.
“I don’t know who shot them. I am part of the vigilante, I don’t know. I am a hunter and a vigilante. It’s not me, please,” he mentioned.
However, Jemilah who spoke from the hospital the place Abdulmalik was receiving remedy, mentioned one of many brothers had been discharged from the hospital and the opposite, who was hit by a bullet within the leg, could be present process surgical procedure.
“It is justice that we want. Up till now, we have not heard anything from the police. We learnt that one of the suspects was arrested. We don’t even have money for surgery. They are demanding N120,000. All of us are orphans,” Jemilah mentioned.
A resident within the space and buddy of the victims, Ibrahim Abdulrahman, in a phone dialog with our correspondent on Wednesday, lamented the safety scenario.
“What we want is that the police should find out those people that did it and why they did it because we don’t even know who is who now. Everybody is now carrying guns in the community and bad things keep happening,” Abdulrahman mentioned.
Also, a civil society organisation, the Take It Back Movement, urged the police to instantly probe the matter and convey the perpetrators to e book.
The group’s Director, Juwon Sanyaoulu, in a WhatsApp chat with our correspondent on Wednesday mentioned, “Three days after being shot on foot by an armed vigilante group alongside his 19-year old brother, Abdulmalik Abubakar, is now being moved for surgery. “Unfortunately, the police are yet to make a single arrest. The police must immediately look into the case and bring the perpetrators to book.”
Contacted for a response, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh, promised to seek out out from the Divisional Police Officer dealing with the matter.
“Let me find out. Let me ask the DPO,” she merely informed The PUCNH
