On New Year’s day, a nine-year-old schoolboy in Katsina State, Jawad, was reportedly shot dead by a policeman during a mayhem.
, the father of the slain minor, Yusuf Ahmed-Rufai, expresses his grief and demand for justiceI am Yusuf Ahmed-Rufai. I am 42 years old and from Katsina State. I am a civil servant. I am the father of Jawad, the nine-year-old boy, who was killed by a policeman, Sergeant Nura, at Sabuwar Unguwar on Sunday, January 1, 2023.My boy went to his Islammiya school that our people call Makaranta Alo. He always went there every day. He would go there at 4pm on returning from the conventional school.
On that Sunday , Jawad left home for the Arabic school around 4pm and was on his way back home shortly after 6 pm after closing at the school. It was on his way back home that the sergeant shot him. What sympathisers told me was that there was a pre-wedding party going on in a house at Sabuwa Unguwar on that day and a deejay was playing music.
I learnt that Sergeant Nura initially went to the house alone and told the deejay to stop playing music. He was there alone. Following the refusal of the people having the party to heed Sergeant Nura’s order, he left the house only for him to come back with some vigilantes and not with any police patrol team, as claimed. He and the vigilantes then started packing the musical instruments. Those around said this infuriated the organisers of the party, who then started making fun of him.
There was no clash between the police patrol team and the hoodlums, as some reports claimed. Sergeant Nura went there alone and my boy was the fourth person his bullet hit on that day.Jawad was the fourth person that the bullet hit on that day. There was a boy in our neighbourhood here. His name is Abdul Jamiu. A bullet cut his two fingers on the right hand.
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