EndBadGovernance Protest:  No Recorded Death In Katsina – Police

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The Police in Katsina  State has debunked the news that one of its personnel was shot dead by a colleague during the ongoing nationwide protest.

A video showing a Police Officer, lying down motionless, allegedly shot dead mistakingly by a colleague, has been in circulation.

But in a statement on Saturday August 3, 2024, Abubakar Sadiq-Aliyu, ASP, Spokesperson for the Katsina State Police Command, urged members of the public to disregard the news item.

He pointed out that no person, protesters or Security Personnel, has so far been  killed  contrary to the news being circulated.

“The Command wishes to address a misleading viral video circulating on social media platforms of a security agent lying motionless on the ground alleged to have been shot dead  by a police officer while trying to disperse protesters

“The  video is manipulated and taken out of context as there was no such shooting incident through out the Command during the protest.

“The fact is that the security agent shown in the video is an officer of the Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, who fell from a patrol vehicle due to an accident involving the vehicle at the scene of the protest.

He was immediately rushed to the Federal Teaching Hospital (formally Federal Medical Centre ) Katsina, where he was treated and discharged”, the statement noted.

The Command, while urging the public to disregard the misleading information, also assured of its readiness, in concert with other sister security agencies to ensure adequate protection of lives and properties.

The Source reports that Katsina is one of the State’s in the North West region of the country where the  protest against hunger and bad governance which commenced on August 1, assumed a violent dimension.

Other States which have been visited with orgies of looting, arson, vandalization and general violence by protesters are Kaduna, Kano, Borno  Yobe, and Niger.