A Police officer, Sergeant Basharu Alhassan, on Wednesday shot dead one of his colleagues, Inspector Ya’u Yakubu, at Warawa Divisional Police Headquarters in Kano.
Spokesperson of the state Police Command, Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa, said the deceased was rushed to Wudil General Hospital where doctors confirmed him dead.
He said the inspector has been arrested, and kept at the Police Criminal Investigation Department (CIaD), where he would be subjected to medical test to ascertain his mental fitness.
“There was misunderstanding between the two officers and as a result, the Inspector fired a shot at the Sergeant,” Kiyawa said.
“On our preliminary investigations, the said Inspector said he didn’t even know how he shot his colleague and he could remember that the deceased was laughing at him.
“So he was out of his sense and committed this act.”
He said the state commissioner of police, Sama’ila Dikko had ordered the case be transferred to the state CID, homicides section, to enable them to conduct discrete investigation into the matter.
