SOLDIERS in Delta State are facing police investigation after they shot dead one Akparobi Orobogha at Jakpa Junction in Uvwie Local Government Area while she was on the way back from her daughter's wedding.
In a bitter tragedy that turned what should have been a joyous day into one of sorrow and mourning, Mrs Orobogha was shot by one of the soldiers deployed to enforce the no- movement restriction during the monthly environmental sanitation exercise. They stopped the tricycle conveying Mrs Orobogha from the wedding ceremony at the roadblock but the rider refused to comply.
According to family members, one of the soldiers fired a shot at the fleeing tricycle which allegedly killed the woman. Military sources, however, countered that the bride’s mother died from a bayonet injury inflicted by one of the soldiers.
According to Alero Orobogha, the deceased's daughter who was speaking from Ekpan Police Station where the case was reported, the killer-soldier who killed her mother was whisked away by members of the joint task force (JTF) and was not arrested. She said, however, that the colleagues of the killer-soldier at the roadblock where the incident happened have been taken to Warri Area Command for interrogations.
Alero added: “They have not arrested the soldier as the JTF whisked him away and his colleagues that were at the road block together are now at Warri Area Command. It was my mom that was shot as she was coming from the wedding."
One senior army officer at the 3 Battalion of the Nigerian Army at Effunrun Barracks, debunked claims that the deceased was shot. He said it was a bayonet that unintentionally pierced the women, adding that the soldiers involved in the incident had been called up by the Nigerian Army for interrogation.
Delta State Police Command spokeswoman Celestina Kalu, said the case was already being investigated. She, however, said no arrest had been made by the command yet on the case.
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