Prison officer kills trader over cigarette in Kano

An officer of the Nigeria Correctional Service has shot and killed one person and injured another close to Goron Dutse Correctional Centre in Kano.

Eyewitness said the victim was running a business around the correctional facility at Goron Dutse in Kano metropolis when the officer approached him for a cigarette. The request led to misunderstanding.

“We can’t really say with certainty what triggered the killing, but it seems that the officer was owing the trader some money and this time around the trader refused to sell to the officer. This triggered the anger in him and he suddenly shot the trader,” a witness said.

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The Star gathered that the bullet that was fired at the trader went through his stomach and hit another person on his leg.

The victims were subsequently conveyed to Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital Kano where the trader was confirmed dead and the victim sustained leg injury.

“They came here with the victims but they were taken out. And one is dead,” a source told The Star at the Hospital.

Confirming the incident, Kano Police Command Public Relations Officer, DSP Abdullahi Kiyawa said the police are still trying to ascertain the identity of the slain trader while the injured is under treatment.

Spokesman of the correctional centre, Musbahu Kofar Nasarawa, said he was going to brief the press but was yet to do that at the time of filling this report.

The Star