NewStats: 3,263,810 , 8,181,474 topics. Date: Sunday, 08 June 2025 at 02:55 AM 155q3b

Simpleshafee:
It’s quite unfortunate that the police shot the boy. If the driver of the vehicle had obeyed the traffic rule, this unfortunate incident would have been avoided.

Sharrap...

Which traffic rules? The same police break here and there? Even if an individual breaks traffic rule, what business is that with discharging his arm?

Very soon they'll get it very hot. If you're one of them.

Naz34:
But our politicians are very heartless. I cant be a house of rep member or governor in this state and not personally come out and demand for justice over this matter. I will personally carry the case upon my head until all actors who caused the demise of that boy pay the ultimate price. You mean to tell me none them politicians in oyo is watching or reading about this incident on social media? And they are all quiet. They are monsters.

watch the video

Qadaffi2idiamin:
Sharrap...

Which traffic rules? The same police break here and there? Even if an individual breaks traffic rule, what business is that with discharging his arm?

Very soon they'll get it very hot. If you're one of them.

watch the video before you comment.


Or write to national assembly,all traffic rules should be removed every one should drive they he want

2Ways:
So now the penalty for breaking traffic rules is dead by firing squad? ( Nigerian Police Force) is the worst institution in the world.

.....no, but he was driving recklessly and dangerously against one way traffic and never considered the other occupants of his car, the driver is entirely to blame.

Iamdboss:
This is totally avoidable. Big blames on both the driver and unprofessional officer that shot the poor innocent boy.

...I will say the blame rest heavily on the driver

Both the man & the officer should face the judgement.
Why would he be driving so reckless because of offense money can solve. I doubt if he would have stopped if he has knocked down & killed someone while evading.
And to the officer, must he shoot? Can't they just get the vehicle number & press charges afterwards...
May the soul of the innocent boy rest in peace...

The man ( father) and the policeman 👮‍♂️
we're both wrong, but the innocent boy paid
the price... 😔


I suspect the hands of village people in
this tragedy...

Gbadugbakun:
That man is very stupid. Now that he's lost his son I hope he's very happy with himself.

Why not stop when they ask you to stop. Even if your papers are not complete highest they'll do is to collect money from you.

Now his stubbornness has cost the life of his son.

And to the police officer that discharged his firearm. He should be arrested and jailed.

... you get sense, both of them are to be blamed, but the father more than the Police.

LabStores:

So many unprofessional d0Its in the police force.
Most of them are just very reckless and lack discipline.
Why can't they learn how to stop vehicle by shooting at the tires?
This is completely avoidable!
They can simply just take down the number plate and use it to trace the offender.
Why just shoot recklessly?
The officer and the offender needs to be severely punished.

....and the driver that was driving dangerously against one way traffic is innocent abi.

I was also thinking what if the driver kidnapped somebody at the back. Is that how the police will shot the car from the back. Police should learn how to take down tire instead

Dogalmighty17:
The police lied? Yeah. I knew it.

....no the police did not lie, the driver was driving dangerously against traffic and could have killed one of the officers.

Iamdboss:
This is totally avoidable. Big blames on both the driver and unprofessional officer that shot the poor innocent boy.

The police have no right to shoot traffic offenders so the blame is on the police. The driver has a right to escape.

Gbadugbakun:
That man is very stupid. Now that he's lost his son I hope he's very happy with himself.

Why not stop when they ask you to stop. Even if your papers are not complete highest they'll do is to collect money from you.

Now his stubbornness has cost the life of his son.

And to the police officer that discharged his firearm. He should be arrested and jailed.

all those insults is actually for you because you have empty B you get to that, there are system to apprehend traffic offenders, having access to guns doesn't give you right to leather force on armless citizens, because you are a police officer or relative of police doesn't give you moral right to respond to issues without thinking faculty so you get shot today by whatever means, we should condemn you for making a mistake. NL should do well by screen out under age from this forum honestly

Watcharena:
watch the video before you make any comment not stoping issmall thing compared to what he did then ask your self can you do that when carrying your children

Oga I watched the video earlier. You have only watched one part of the video clip most likely edited. What happened before this scene, is what you cannot tell right?. However, not enough justification to shoot indiscriminately. Many guys in NPF are not properly trained, that's just the truth. There are 1001 ways better to apprehend the man. Unfortunately, it is we the innocent unarmed citizens that continues to be at the receiving end.

almayda:
The father of the child must be arraigned alongside the shooter,how can a responsible father act like that in the presence of his child?

....it beats my imagination, driving dangerously against traffic with your young son in the car, this is the height of irresponsibility.

very avoidable death, if the policeman have shot in a terrorise place in north he would have been justify as disobeying traffic rules and police force order will be a red flag


he just ignorantly killed an innocent boy with his stubbornness and the useless policeman shouldnt have shoot rather than shoot why not call for blocking of his ways


it pained me that an innocent boy paid for the foolishness of two adults

If you watch the video you will realize this is a case of mistaken identity, the car is tinted and the driver of the vehicle was driving very reckless which any reasonable person would assume he is a criminal trying to evade arrest, how can you have a child in the car and be driving that irresponsible. I blame the driver, I hate the it it but the police weren’t lying this time on their report.

TallNigerian:
There are too many things to be deduced from this video and they all trickle down to the culture of lawlessness in Nigeria.

1. Father of deceased: That driving was too reckless. You were driving against traffic yet refused to stop and answer the traffic enforcement team. Just imagine how he was bashing into other cars and even the road culvert, destroying his own car in the process. What justification could he have had? If not for anything, he should have considered that a minor (his child for that matter) was in the car. That shows the level of lawlessness amongst Nigerian drivers.

2. Police: No need to dwell on them. We already know they should be the second worst police force in the world. Second only to probably Afghanistan. Is shooting a live bullet the way to solve a traffic infraction or stop a stupid driver?

3. Traffic Officers a.k.a Agberos in Uniform: From their uncouth language alone, you can tell that one of the major requirement in their recruitment process is the ability to use swear words and behave live a tout. No person who went through the four walls of a tertiary institution will behave like those urchins do. Last last, education no be scam.

4. Other Nigerians: Our emergency preparedness is zero, our situational awareness is zero, ability to think critically in difficult situation = zero. No sense. Maybe if we were not Nigerians, that child would have gotten to the hospital in good time and might have lived.

We all play our part towards how terrible our country and society is. Our leaders are a true reflection of who we are as individuals and as collective people.

Corollary: After watching this video, I wonder if this man's wife will forgive him. His sheer stupidity escalated the situation that eventually cost them their son's life.

This is the best analysis, we know our police are always on the edge, why then provoke them further,last last he could have settled this thing with maximum 5k

superlanny:
Let them just sell this country, I can't continue sharing this space with APC and PDP idiots and empty skulls. When I see how other countries are developing and what their people are demanding and holding their leaders able for I just weep for this useless country.

How can men&women of over 30, 40, 50, 60yrs be so daft and stupid, putting tribe over their suffering and pain is yet to be studied. Nigerians are one of the most foolish people in the world and I am ashamed to be one.

With this nonsense and ineffective leadership I won't be shocked to see people screaming APC for 2027. Just wait and see.

Young man, Nigeria has failed you. Rest in peace

NB: Just reading the comments, shows the average intelligence of Nigerians, very poor.

If I may ask you why are you politicising every issue, well if you want to sell Nigeria I have the documents. IRE O

I was in Côte d'Ivoire for a few weeks this month my second visit in less than one year and this is my observation. Their police officers, who also serve as traffic wardens, typically use whistles. A few others, very few, use power bikes and carry pistol guns. I have never seen AK-47 rifles on the streets in that country, never! Even vehicles transporting cash had no visible armed escorts.

This absence of heavy weaponry is reflected in the behavior of the people and the atmosphere of the society, very calm and law-abiding.

When the police create an impression that we are at war, it becomes difficult for people to trust them. This friction breeds tension, and that tension spreads across the society. It’s reverse psychology: you want to control crime by placing unsupervised, frustrated, poorly-paid individuals on the streets with AK-47s. What you get is more crime, not less.

The Nigerian police must be reformed. We are not at war. No more AK-47s on our streets!.

It is possible to have special units that tackle organized and violent crimes, who will work discreetly and strategically behind the scenes to nip crime at its bud. Where criminals do not know who is watching or when, communities become more engaged, and the level of tension and killings on our streets will reduce. Ultimately, this will even lower costs and deliver better results.

Watcharena:
Seriously his father is the remote cause I'm , sure even he will regret violating traffic law.

And I'm 100% sure he will not go free, both he and the police will be punished, but the child won't come back

I agree with you 100%

Both the Father of the child and the driver are at fault.

Why would the man be trying to endanger lives with his children in the car , What example is he teaching them? My son from JSS1 would not let me rest if I ever beat a traffic light not to talk of driving against traffic. He would highlight others who are beating traffic lights as wrong, how can I , his role model, be beating traffic lights?

The driver will live with the effects of his bad decisions all his life. Especially knowing we have a trigger-happy force , why would I not only commit the offence , disobey and assault the officers with my car ...that's a king rap sheet , the man is culpable and mind you , if he tries it with American police , he would likely be dead.

The police man and the rest of the team are only ionate about the potential victim to extort and not ionate about the work of traffic management. while it may have been expedient to stop the errant driver who was reckless ( he may have been a kidnapper), apparently someone in the Traffic organisation car acknowledged that the man had children but not clear if the policeman knew. .........its also within the rules of engagement to use utmost caution in the discharge of firearms, why not shoot into the air , especially with the strong ricochet of AK47 , he should have been more cautious. A single AK-47 bullet fired can kill 2 people in a straight line.

Ultimately, both sides will be punished ....but an innocent life had been untimely cut short. The boy is the only victim and his siblings who watched him die.
The father will live with the reality that his decisions killed his son and will have to explain his actions to his surviving kids till the end of his life.....
The policeman will face the music for the careless use of his weapon alone in a dingy cell; his superiors, whom he may be delivering proceeds to, will deny him. He will regret the murder of a child, and his career has ended due to his lack of discretion.

Sad, sad, sad and hope we all learn lessons from this.

Yeah that's akala,I've driven one way against these mofocka, countless times. They attempted to race me.they didn't see me any longer.i never knew they had marked my car.5months later I was now caught at govt house road,and slammed a huge bill of abt 80k.i later paid after wla week,but my mirrors were all vandalised.i swore to get two of them legs ripped off. Yeah. Mirrors cost me another 35k.

Thomthom:
The father did not fail the boy. Because the father's plate number would have been used to trace him. Rather the police officer should be charged for murder

I disagree, the father failed the boy, because his actions ignored the whole situation.

See another Zombie who can't use his brain, fck Labor party, Fck Peter Obi, Fck all the politicians past, present and future. Can't you see how this country is going , there is no hope and yet we keep defending rubbish. We go dey here see everything, just wait

Sharpsharp00123:
so it is angels that are in labour party?

I saw what u did there, nobody is putting tribe over everything but we are putting competence above everything.


Obi failed woefully as a governor which all his people attested to but today they all want us to see him as d Emergency Messiah over tinubu with a well verified track record.


It's not possible, it is only in Nigeria that a failure as governor will want to contest as president n when asked of his track record he will say go n

So police also use gun to rob people in Ibadan?
They were trained in the southeast.
If this were in the southeast, the police would find a Biafra flag and place ontop of the boy's corpse. He is an IPOB, Police would say. The only country in the world where unarmed separatists are shot by the armed forces. Zoo.

a poor soul lost because of recklessness of two eediots... d fada & d officer!

Sad!

excomarow:
The Beast parading itself as Police...

I put the blame entirely in the father of the boy?

What was all that stunt driving for ? What if he knocked down the road safety officers or other road s

What a world, how I wish it was the man that was short and not the boy, so that both unlawful father and untrained police officer that was granted a fireman unlawfully by unlawful Nigeria government can also be charge and be prosecuted by lawless and corrupted judiciary.

Nodogragra4me:



I put the blame entirely in the father of the boy?

What was all that stunt driving for ? What if he knocked down the road safety officers or other road s

That's no excuse for police to shoot at the vehicle. Police don't even use guns before unarmed civilians in saner societies. Police catch criminals by information not by mounting road blocks.
These police people in Nigeria who mount road blocks are plain EXTORTIONISTS.

Do u as a police officer fire a weapon in public because of a traffic offence

what happed to getting the plate number or stopping the vehicle by other means if a must?

How does shooting at a traffic offender solve the problem? here in lokoja kogi state you see govt officials selling commercial ticket with armed security personnel. Most Nigerians are just too difficult to deal with