By Valentine Amanze, Online Editor
Rivers State-based small-scale entrepreneur, Monday Bakor, has accused the Nigerian security agencies of killing his fiancée, Queen Nwazuo, on October 22, 2020.
Bakor, 36, said that police officers shot dead his fiancée, while they were both locking up their barbing salon in Oyigbo, Rivers State.
He further disclosed that they had planned to wed on February in 2021.
On how Queen was killed, Bakor narrated: “I saw the policeman wearing [a] red beret. Before I could know, I heard a very loud sound, not in the air, directly at the shop. The bullet pierced through the iron door and hit her.
“I rushed her to a hospital where she was confirmed dead.”
Bakor had told BBC that he could not report to the police because of a 24-hour curfew in the area, stressing that the closest police stations was burnt down during the crisis that followed Lekki Tollgate massacre of #EndSARS protesters by Nigerian soldiers in Lagos on October 20, 2020.
Police spokesman Nnamdi Omoni told the BBC that no report had been made of the incident.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International said it had received reports that “soldiers are allegedly invading homes” and that “some residents reported seeing dead bodies on the street, allegedly shot by soldiers”.
Authorities said that members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), proscribed as a terrorist organisation in 2017 by Nigeria’s federal government, targeted security operatives in Oyigbo as tensions spilled over following the #EndSars protests against police brutality in the country.
Some residents in Oyigbo community said that some soldiers and policemen were killed while trying to stop clashes between two cult groups in the area, resulting in revenge attack by the police and army.
