“But I saw a corpse at the entrance of the military base but didn’t know it was my son; and they never told me until I met his fellow detainee while driving home,” he said.
The Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven , in Plateau State has confirmed the killing of one Rinji Bala, a 20-year-old 300-levels student ofMr Bala, popular known as “Bobo”, was mistakenly shot by a sentry of the OPSH at its office along Zaria Road, Jos on Tuesday.
He explained that Mr Bala and four other suspects were cleared and released, but that on their way out, a personnel on duty mistook them for escaping suspects and opened fire on them. “Consequently, our Sector 1 patrol troops of OPSH swiftly responded and arrested seven suspects, which were immediately moved to the Headquarters of the Sector 1 for preliminary investigation.“Unfortunately as they were leaving, one of the personnel on sentry duty mistook them for escaping suspects. Thus opened fire on them, which led to the death of Rinji Bala,” he said.
Mr Dung, who was among those arrested alongside the deceased, narrated that they were taken to the sector one of OPSH, along Zaria Road, Jos. “I stopped to help him but a soldier came close with his gun pointed at me but turned back, and one of the soldier shouted “ceasefire”,” he said.
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