A policeman shot and killed a 12 year old boy in Kano

A police sergeant attached to Gwale divisional station killed a 12-year-old boy
identified as Hassan Muhammad. The trigger happy cop, identified as Laminu Adamu, was said to have fired a shot that hit and killed the teenager. Hassan died from the fatal injury on his way to hospital.
The incident triggered pandemonium and violent protest in the area with an attempt to set ablaze the divisional police office, located in the municipality. The arrival of several plantoons of anti riot police aggrieved the locals however, good persuasion and restraint was used to avert a blood bath in the city bedeviled by security challenges.
The acting Police Public Relation officer, Kano State Command, ASP Magaji Musa Majia confirmed the incident in a press release saying that “the command noted with deep regret the unfortunate incident that occurred at Gwale in which 12-year-old boy was shot by Sergeant Laminu Adamu”. Majia stated that the incident happened when the sergeant, sitting on a patrol vehicle, fired a shot which hit the deceased. The police spokesman said the affected officer had been arrested and was undergoing orderly room trial. He assured of fairness and justice. “We have assured the members of the family of the
deceased that the process will be fair and , open and that justice will be surely be done”, Majia stressed in
the statement.