Police corporal kills ASP over girlfriend in Yobe

A police corporal Bitrus Andrew yesterday shot dead one
Assistant Superintendent Olosuji Elegbede at a police
compound in Gashua town in Yobe State over a quarrel
caused by a girlfriend to both of them.
Weekly Trust gathered that the incident occurred at
about 9:05am after all efforts by a divisional police
officer to resolve the issue failed.
A witness said the police corporal, popularly called
Kwaba was bitter that his superior officer snatched a
girl he has been befriending for the past eight years.
H e said the junior officer was not happy that the
divisional police officer rather than tell the as sistant
superintendent to leave the lady for him, warned him
that it is a disrespectful act to befriend his superior
officer’s woman.
“The corporal picked up his rifle and shot the assistant
superintendent five times on his chest and he dropped
down and was taken to a hospital, where he was
confirmed dead,” the witness said.
Another witness said Corporal Bitrus has been
befriending the lady for over eight years, while the
superior officer was just posted to the division.
“You know how ladies behave, the guy was a senior
officer and had a car, so she forgot all the good time
Bitrus had with her for over eight years and started
going out with Olosuji,” he said
Reacting, Yobe State Police Commissioner, Sanusi
Ahmed Rufa’i, confirmed the incident and said that the
assistant superintendent was shot dead by the corporal
while trying to settle a misunderstanding that ensued
between the corporal and his wife.
He said that the killer corporal was arrested, while the
corpse is at the Gashua General Hospital.