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Services Front Page Back Page Advert Rates Subscription News Home National International Business News Abuja Reports Sports Politics Sun Girl Editorial Editorial Issues Letters Opinion Columnists Community Standard Guestbook View Guestbook Sun Chatroom   Features Apettit Arts BlockBuster CEO Magazine Celebrity Fashion City Sun Crime Watch Covert Choice CyberSun Enterprise Everyday Heroes Exquisite Property Fashion & Celebrity Fashion & Beauty Favourite File Health Magazine How I write Life Style Living Mafia Series Man in the street Man in the pulpit Managing a Law Firm Me & My God Media People Money Motoring Power Game Romance Romantic Faction Senior Citizen Showtime Smoking Guns Sun Splash Sunlight of Islam Travels Window of the world Window on widows Woman of the Sun Women in Business Women & Me Videoscope Weekend Sun Saturday Sun Sunday Sun Weekend Sports Weekend Cartoons Company Profile About Us Management Contact Us   Shot by trigger-happy cop By CHRISTOPHER OJI Monday July 19, 2004 • Victor Ofuasia Photo: Sun News Publishing National Index A man who was hit by stray bullet allegedly fired by a trigger-happy police constable is still thanking God for sparing his life. Victor Ofuasia, who spoke after a thanksgiving ceremony in his compound said, "I am talking now by His grace. God spared my life from a trigger-happy police constable who vowed that I must not see my baby but God decided otherwise." According to Ofuasia, he was on his way to his office and boarded a commercial bus at the Ikeja bus stop, when suddenly, a team of policemen who felt that the bus was not picking passengers directly from the bus stop started chasing the motor. Ofuasia said that within a twinkle of an eye, a police corporal opened fire on the bus and the bullet hit him on his right thigh. Ofuasia who was full of praises to God said: "I just heard gboom, and the next thing I saw was blood oozing out of my body and the passengers, who were full of fear started shouting ‘Jesus’ ‘Jesus,’ thinking that the policeman would fire again." He said that the corporal, who he gave his name, as Isaiah would have fired more shots but for his colleagues who disarmed him, adding: "The driver and the conductor ran away leaving the passengers to their fate." He said that he managed to limp with blood dripping out of his aching thigh to where the policemen were. And he was rushed to the hospital. Ofuasia, who said that he was expecting a baby wondered what would have become of his newly married wife and that of the unborn baby adding; "I thank God that he spared my life. I have not enjoyed my marriage and this man who is paid, with our tax, to protect us wanted to send me to an early grave." Victor said he wondered what would happen thereafter: "The X-ray showed that there is a bullet inside my body. What do the police want me to do? Right now I am one legged and I can’t go for my business anymore." He said that what surprised him most was that the trigger happy policemen should open fire at about 1pm in a busy place like Ikeja adding, "What would have happened if it was at night? This man would have finished the whole passengers." He said that information at his disposal show that the policeman had engaged in such indiscriminate shooting before. "One of his colleagues told me that he has faced an orderly room trial before this my case. I wonder why he wanted to kill me." Ofuasia wants the State commissioner of police to wade into the issue and see that the policeman is brought to book.         HOME | ABOUT THE SUN | SPORTS | POLITICS | NEWS | COLUMNISTS | CONTACT US I ADVERT RATE © 2004 THE SUN PUBLISHING LTD. This service is provided on The Sun Newspapers' standard terms and conditions in accordance with our Privacy Policy. To inquire about a licence to reproduce material and other inquiries, Contact Us.

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