Police Corporal Shoots Self To Death With Own Rifle In Minna

A mobile policeman identified as Corporal Tanko Usman has allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service rifle.

The incident reportedly occurred on Saturday in an uncompleted building along Eastern Bye-pass in Minna, the Niger state capital.

It was learnt that the 30 year old policeman, who until his death, was attached to Squadron 12 Police Mobile Force PMF Minna, shot himself in the wee hours of Saturday with a AK 47 rifle shortly after he left his duty post in one of the second generation banks in the city.

He was said to have parked his motorcycle by the roadside and walked briskly into the uncompleted building where he later committed suicide.

According to The Nation, unsuspecting people around saw the armed Police Corporal walk into the uncompleted building but were few minutes later attracted by the loud sound of gunshot.

According to one of the men around, who spoke in confidence, “Nobody suspected that something awful was in the offering when the Corporal entered the uncompleted building, infact nobody challenged him, it was the gun shot that attracted us and when we got in we found the dead body of the Policeman.

“We later reported the incident at Maitunmbi Police division from where we gathered the police mobile squadron was contacted and some of their (MOPOL) men came to evacuate the body”.

Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Richard Adamu Oguche (ASP) said the commander squadron Mopol 12 and the Divisional Crime officer (DCO) of Maitumbi division visited the scene of the incident and coordinated the evacuation of the remains of Corporal Usman.

According to Oguche, “The fact is that this morning there was a report that a man suspected to be mobile policeman allegedly shot himself in an uncompleted building at Eastern bye-pass and it was discovered he is from 12 squadron Police Mobile force PMF, he shot himself with his service rifle which was also recovered and given back to the squadron commander”.

The corpse has already been deposited at the IBB Specialist Hospital’s Mortuary, Minna.