Police Corporal Shoots Dead His Superior For Snatching His Girlfriend

Bitrus Andrew, a police corporal, yesterday, shot dead another of his colleague, Olosuji Elegbede, an Assistant Superintendent, in Gashua town in Yobe State allegedly because of a woman.

According to report, the incident occurred at about 9:05am after all efforts by a divisional police officer to resolve the issue failed.

 

A witness said the police corporal, popularly called Kwaba was bitter that his superior officer snatched a girl he had been with for the past eight years. He said the junior officer was not happy that the divisional police officer rather than tell the assistant superintendent to leave the lady for him, warned him that it is a disrespectful act to struggle with his superior officer over a woman.

 

“The corporal picked up his rifle and shot the assistant superintendent five times on his chest and he dropped down and was taken to a hospital, where he was confirmed dead,” the witness said.

 

Reacting, Yobe State Police Commissioner, Sanusi Ahmed Rufa’i, confirmed the incident and said that the assistant superintendent was shot dead by the corporal while trying to settle a misunderstanding that ensued between the corporal and his wife. He said that the suspected killer corporal was arrested, while the victim’s corpse is at the Gashua General Hospital.