The police officer, who was identified as Sergeant Clement Raymond, serving at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command ‘B’ ops Department was shot 14 bullets in the stomach with his intestines coming out.
It was gathered that as he was driving in his Gulf car to Minna recently when he was shot by the gunmen suspected to be robbers.
According to a member of a vigilance group in the area, Mallam Ibrahim Idris, said: “These robbers don’t shoot without carting away some of your belongings such as phones, but as soon as they sighted the Gulf car at that hour of 10pm, and it was obvious they succeeded in a Robbery Operation; what do you expect them to do was to get rid of anyone that might be an obstacles on their way back.”
When ‘A’ Division police station was informed, they moved Raymond to Berith Specialist Hospital at Kwamba where five doctors performed surgery on him for 12 hours trying to rearrange his intestines.
Confirming the incident, the Divisional Police Officer of ‘A’ Division and Chief Superintendent Officer, Francis Sunday Ekanem, said Raymond was amongst the few people who could survive such incident.
One of the doctors who took part in the surgery also said patients hardly pull through such cases.
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