A security operative has been captured pulling his trigger that led to the death of a protester in Azare, Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
According to Daily Trust, the unidentified protester was pinned to the ground by some persons who tortured him.
The platform noted the young man in a video was seen lying on the ground as two or three persons hit him repeatedly.
Shortly after, his killer, who was standing beside a white Toyota Hilux van belonging to security operatives, moved closer.
After hitting him twice, the officer pointed his rifle directly at the victim and immediately pulled the trigger.
The crowd at the scene yelled as the policeman walked away without looking back.
It was noted that the incident happened in front of the Katagum Local Government secretariat, where policemen and some protesters using the Russian flag clashed.
A resident of Azare, who did not want his name in print, told Daily Trust that the deceased was one of the hoodlums arrested by the police, but this newspaper could not independently verify this claim at the time of filing this report.
Since the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest kicked off on Thursday, there have been allegations of killings against the police, but the force denied each and all of them.
Amnesty International had condemned the use of lethal force against protesters.
In a statement, the human rights group said, “Our findings, so far, show that security personnel at the locations where lives were lost deliberately used tactics designed to kill while dealing with gatherings of people protesting hunger and deep poverty.”
But Muyiwa Adejobi, Force spokesman, had said while there were some instances of killings during the protest, none was by the police.
