A mobile policeman attached to the Zenith Bank, Zaria on
December 23, killed his colleague and shot six people who
were on ATM queue, including a student of the Umaru Musa
Yar'Adua University.
According to an eyewitness, argument ensued between both
policemen over access into the banking hall. The policeman
that was shot had attempted to enter while the one on duty
tried to stop him.
They started exchanging harsh words. Suddenly, the
policeman on duty pulled his gun and shot the other officer.
He then started shooting sporadically killing a student
instantly. Below is an eyewitness account by Oluwaloniglory
OmoJesu, who confirmed that two others were confirmed
dead at the hospital:
"I was there when it all went down but fear no let me carry
phone dey snap the event. It all started like this....
I woke up early this morning, made my way to the bank,
Manchester road precisely where GTBank was situated, I got
there, there was no money at the ATM machine, infact I went
round the whole Zaria non of the banks ATM machines was
loaded with money (like say na plan work).
I got to diamond bank round about, made my way up to
zenith bank, I got there but the crowd there was something
else, so as I was about leaving, two of the mopols guiding
the bank were arguing then one of them asked the other to
hand over his rifle to him if not he will shoot him, like play
like play, the guy cocked his rifle, his name was Ayuba
Hamisu while the other one was Joshua Matthew both of
them were Sergeants and attached to Mopol 47 squadron
Zaria, so Joshua handed over his rifle to Ayuba knowing fully
well that Ayuba has already cocked his rifle and anything can
happen, while the rest mopols were just looking in
amazement, the next thing I heard was, lie down, at this
moment I knew something terrible was about to happen.
So I left the premises of the bank, kick starts my vehicle and
drove off immediately, suddenly it was not up to 30seconds I
heard a gun shot, people started running for their dear lives, I
parked my car to know what was going on, then I looked
down to zenith bank, two people were already on the ground
dead including Joshua the other Mopol man that was lying on
the ground before I left the bank.
The next thing I saw, was an Okada man dropped dead from
his Okada, at that period I knew war has started, as I was
trying to get the clear picture of what really transpired to that
ugly event, I saw the Ayuba with two AK47s shooting rapidly
chanting Allah Uhakubar as you can see from the picture.
I quickly hid myself with others in one of the shops at PZ
bustop, immediately news got to Zaria Area command who
mobilized men to the scene before they could got there one
of the mopols had already shot Ayuba in both legs, he
couldn't get up again with the rifles fell off his hands and I
saw mobs gathered and started hitting him with so many
objects they could lay their hands on.
police later dispersed the crowd, took Ayuba to hospital
together with Joshua who was already dead before getting to
hospital and three other persons who they later confirmed
dead on arrival due to multiple gun shots.
They said Ayuba later gave up due to serious beating by the
mobs and loss of blood. For this Christmas, I thank my God
say my head no follow join oooo, make Una help me thank
God oooo. the incident was so terrible."
This is the photos of Joshua Matthew shot by his colleague,
Ayuba, in Zaria
