According to the eyewitness
reports, Mohammed was engaged to clear a portion of land by a woman near
her home at Erepa Road in the town but after he completed the task, the
woman reneged on paying him the agreed sum, with the argument that he
did not do the job to her satisfaction.
It was in
the hat of the argument that a member of the Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps (NSCDC), came in and engaged Mohammed in a fight, when a
passing police officer shot him in the thigh to demobilise him.Mohammed
narrated his ordeal on his hospital bed:
"We
agreed on N3,000. But after I finished the work, she said she will pay
N1,000. I got angry and she called in some policemen guarding the home
of a senior police officer on Erepa Road.The first person that came was a
Civil Defence man and he claimed I stabbed him, and the mobile
policeman, without asking questions, shot me in the thigh."
