POLICE KILLS SALES GIRL IN ABUJA

Late Lucy

Policemen in Abuja yesterday shot and killed a 20-year old sales girl called Lucy in Apo area. She was hit in the chest by bullets fired into a photography shop where she worked as a sales girl while three other people sustained gunshot injuries when policemen from the FCT Police Command fired bullets indiscriminately in an attempt to enforce the demolition order of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council.

 Around 7a.m yesterday, officials of Development Control Department stormed the area with policemen to demolish illegal structures but residents and indigenes, who felt that the government had no right to demolish their houses when the case was still in court and they were yet to be resettled, resisted the operation.

The policemen shot indiscriminately to control the residents and bullets penetrated into one of the shops and Lucy was hit in the chest. She was rushed to Garki Hospital, but she was confirmed dead on arrival. Her body has been deposited in the mortuary. The Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mr. Wilson Inalegwu said “We are not sure what took our men there or what led to the shooting, it’s still a matter for investigation,” he said.

That is all they say, 'we will investigate'. No police has ever been held accountable for the innocent lives they've taken. When will this stop, when will we see police and not fear for our lives, when will they begin to pay for wasting the lives of our brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, children, lives they ought to be protecting, when, when...