A yet to be identified naval personnel attached to the Naval College of Administration and Finance, Owerri-Nta, Abia State, has shot dead a man identified as Majo Nwogu, for refusing to stop at a checkpoint, along Umuezegwu – Mbawsi road,in Isiala Ngwa North council area of the State.
Eyewitnesses stated that the deceased was shot as he rode through the naval checkpoint on his motorcycle and refused to stop as he was flagged down by the naval personnel.
Angered by the action, one of the naval personnel shot him on the back and he lay in a pool of blood as he battled for survival.
However, the Navy told Vanguard that the deceased was invited over a case of tricycle theft reported against him at Umunkpeyi-Nvosi and got shot in the course of arrest while struggling with the gun of a naval personnel.
Vanguard also gathered that the naval personnel had erected a barricade in the area where they demand motorcycle riders to disembark and trek through the barricade before continuing their journey.
A motorcycle rider in the area who pleaded anonymity, lamented the series of humiliation they have continued to suffer at the hands of naval personnel for not stopping to trek over the checkpoint,adding that Majo was killed for not stopping at the checkpoint.
Following the incident, the naval personnel allegedly asked other motorcycle riders to take the deceased to the hospital, and were said to have jumped into their van and fled the scene.
Sympathizers and kinsmen of the deceased who had gathered at the scene made efforts to take him to the hospital,but he died before he could get medical attention.
Vanguard gathered that the kinsmen later deposited his corpse at an undisclosed morgue in the area
