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The Kasoa District Police Commander, Superintendent Samuel Odame has confirmed the alleged shooting of a Nigerian known as Precious at Gomoa Buduburam in the Central Region to be true.

The Kasoa District Police Commander in an interview with Joy News Saturday said that the shooting was not meant to kill the deceased but to disable him as Precious chased the police patrol team with a machete.

He stressed that the police fired in an attempt to defend the patrol team on the ground from the victim who wanted to harm the police officer who wanted to calm the deceased down.

Superintendent Samuel Odame narrated that the police received intelligence that a man in parade of a cutlass was behaving without control in a dangerous manner and was threatening to slash anyone who came his way.

A police patrol team therefore was dispatched to engage him upon the information it received; thus, upon the encounter, Precious who now deceased pursued the officers and in their defence shot the man but could not survived the gunshot wound.

“The victim attacked my men with a machete. When the police officers got there, they wanted to talk to him to calm down but the Corporal who made that attempt was chased by the victim so my men had to run [for their lives].

“But the thing is, the shot was fired to disable him, it is just unfortunate that he passed on later. But the attempt was not to kill him, the attempt was to disable him,” he stressed.

When asked to disclose where the bullet hit, Superintendent Odame declined with the explanation that it could jeopardize the post mortem examination.

Nigerian man allegedly shot and killed by police at Gomoa Buduburam

In spite of the explanation given by the police, the news of Precious’ death has caused tension as an angry mob from the Nigerian Community has besieged the Gomoa Buduburam Police Station on Saturday morning seeking answers as they do not understand why the man was shot to death.

To the Nigerian Community, Precious was shot to death by the police patrol team on purpose but, Kasoa Divisional Police Commander dispelled the allegation noting that such information is false.