Protest: How Soldier’s Bullet Pierced My Brother’s Throat Inside Our Compound- Sibling

Muhammed Abubakar, an elder brother of the 16-year-old boy, Ismail Muhammed, shot dead by the army during the nationwide protests against hunger, has given a first hand experience of how his brother was killed Zaria.

Abubakar revealed that Ismail, a fashion designer and a JSS 3 student of the Government Secondary School Samaru, Zaria, was shot dead, inside their compound at Samaru, a suburb of Zaria city.

Narrating how the tragedy happened to The Punch, Abubakar said, “We were all outside, including some of our neighbours, watching what was happening when we saw a soldier in our area. Everybody ran inside; I was the last person to enter the house and I locked the door.

“Later, I heard two gunshots, and then my second sibling, Usman Muhammad, shouted that soldiers had killed Ismail. I went to the door and peeped. There, I confirmed that Ismail was shot, but I could not go to where he was. The soldier fired another shot at the door.”

Abubakar said after the soldiers left the area, “some of our neighbours came knocking at the door.”

“I opened the door, and I saw that he (Ismail) was shot in the throat and in the back, around his spinal cord

“I carried him and started rushing to the hospital. On our way, I saw two soldiers and while I was telling them they killed my kid brother, some soldiers stationed around the market square came with a Hilux van and nearly hit us but I crossed a gutter and left Ismail’s body there. After then, I don’t know what happened again,” Abubakar stated.

According to him, Ismail was home and never participated in the ongoing #EndBadGovernance protest.

“We’re calling on the government to ensure justice and fairness for Ismail who was brutally killed,” the brother said.

While visiting the family of the deceased, the Emir of Zaria, Alhaji Nuhu Bamalli, said, “We have talked about this already, that virtually everybody in this country is aware of the harsh economy.”

He called on residents to synergise with security forces to ensure bad elements did not infiltrate their communities.

The Emir also commended the Nigerian Army for raising a commission of inquiry to unravel the circumstances surrounding Ismail’s killing, so that justice can be served to the deceased and the family.

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