A commercial bus driver, Haruna Jafaru, who witnessed the killing of three policemen and their two civilian assistants by soldiers commanded by Capt.
Tijjani Balarabe has narrated how his bus was commandeered for the heinous crime.
Jafaru, whose statement was translated from Hausa into English, stated that he was hired by a man, identified as Baba Runs , to take him to a military checkpoint on Ibbi-Takum Road when the soldiers compelled him to chase after the police bus. “I was inside my vehicle when I saw someone come out of the bus with police IRT jacket and hands in the air but the soldiers were still firing their guns. Then I turned my bus to go back to Ibbi.The motorist said he ran out of fuel at Ibbi roundabout, adding that Baba Runs alighted from the vehicle and took a motorcycle without paying his fare. with the gun he picked from the police bus and went into the town; I don’t know where he went with the gun.
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