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Police officer arrested for allegedly shooting tanker driver in Gombe
A trigger-happy police officer, Insp. Urbanus Ishaku, has been arrested for allegedly shooting a tanker driver in Gombe State.
The spokesperson for the state police command, Mary Obed Malum, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said the police officer was arrested on the order of the state’s Commissioner of Police, Ishola Babaitan.
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She added that the incident occurred in Dukku town along the Gombe-Dukku-Darazo expressway on Monday morning.
“The victim was shot on the buttock and the command responded promptly to the report and disarmed the officer,” Malum said.
By: Yemi Kanji
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