Outrage as police shoot a 19 years old boy in a community in Rivers state for impregnating a 17 years old girl.
According to reports, the ugly Incident happened last week Friday, August 21, 2020 around 7am in a community known as K.Dere in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The name of the gunshot victim is Ledesi Kote and according to medical doctors, the young man may lose his left leg to amputation unless 3 different surgeries are urgently conducted on the boy.
The victim's father, Mr Kote whilee narrating the incident, said that
four armed policemen stormed his compound around the aforementioned time in Seinna vehicle and went straight to his son's room door and were banging and cocking guns.
He approached them politely to inquire what the matter was and what his son's offense is.
To his greatest surprise none of them answered him. At a point one of them angrily told him that his son impregnated a girl. Before one could say jack, the next thing he heard was a gunshot.
"One of the officers shot my son on the leg simply because he impregnated a girl and they went away with him while he was bleeding profusely and took him to a private hospital," the man said.
A human rights activist and other lovers of justice on hearing the incident, took the boy's father to the Rivers State Police Command Headquarters in Port Harcourt and laid an official complaint about what their officers did to the boy, whose only crime was because he impregnated a girl.
Arrangements were later made for the immediate transfer of the 19-year-old from the village to a better government owned hospital in Port Harcourt.
At the time of filing this report, the States' Police Command is yet to react or release an official statement as regards the ugly incident, especially the allegation that one of their men shot the boy.
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