SOLDIER KILLS TEENAGE BOY AND STABS A POLICE INSPECTOR OVER GIRLFRIEND

A Maiduguri soldier has been alleged to have shot dead a teenager and stabbed a police inspector at a drinking joint on Monday night, sparking protests on Tuesday morning.

According to eyewitnesses reports three men in mufti were found beating up a girl, believed to be the girlfriend of one of them, over a disagreement as they tried to force her out of a keke napep at the popular drinking joint.
The three men who were offended by the public intervention, left the scene and returned in military fatigues and AK47s and began shooting sporadically.
The mother of the victim was among residents shouting at the soldiers to stop shooting near her grasshopper stall.
An eyewitness, known as Bitrus, said the rescuers of the girl had left when the soldier started shooting.
He said the soldiers insulted the woman who complained and threatened to kill her but her husband pushed one soldier away under threat of a knife.
“The [Jude’s] father and a soldier continued fighting, so Jude saw his father, he was shouting “someone help!
“So he was running and a soldier popularly known as Buratai shut him thrice, in the chest and hand. The boy ran some 100 metres and fell in a pool of his blood.
“He was rushed to State Specialist Hospital but he died before getting to the hospital. His father is currently receiving treatment at the hospital,” Bitrus newsmen.
Reports also revealed that irate youth at the scene blocked roads and set fire to tyres. Shops in the area were also forced closed.