A Soldier killed a UNIMAID graduate who gave him a lift and then takes his car

A soldier in Maiduguri had last week shot dead a graduate of physics from University of Maiduguri who gave him a lift.

According to the story, after shooting the victim with intend to kill, the soldier ran away with his car. This happened on Wednesday.

The soldier asked the deceased to give him a ride, but later shot him before reaching where he intended to drop and made away with the car.

Father of the deceased, Alhaji Konto Sulum,

confirmed the death of his son. He said the soldier asked his son, Mohammed to give him a lift but before reaching his

destination, the soldier shot him and ran away with his car.

“The soldier who thought he was dead, dragged his body out of the car and zoomed off with it. My son crawled down to the roadside, near Asita Hotel at Bolori, where a good Samaritan called the attention of Civilian JTF and they tried to rush him to the hospital but he gave up the ghost before reaching the hospital.

“Before my son died, he informed the Civilian JTF that he was shot by a soldier who ran away with his car. The next day his friend saw the soldier and his friend at Oando filling station on Baga road with the car, where they alerted Civilian JTF and they were arrested,”he added

“My deceased son had just graduated from the physics department of the University of Maiduguri and was waiting for his call-up letter for NYSC before he was killed,” he said tearfully.