Police Officer Shoots Teenager For Impregnating A 17-Year-Old Girl In Rivers

A teenager, identified as Ledisi Kote, has allegedly been shot by a Police team in K. Dere Community of Gokana Local
Government Area, Rivers State, for impregnating a girl.

The 19-year-old was shot on the leg by a police officer from Kpor Division in the LGA on Friday, August 21.

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According to a source, Kote’s father, he and his son were in his compound in the community on Friday morning at about 7:00am, when a Sienna mini-van drove into his compound carrying about four armed policemen.

Kote’s sick father said the police officers went straight to the door of his son’s room and began banging on it while angrily cocking their guns.

The father revealed that he approached the officers to the reason why they invaded his compound in such a manner and to also know what his son did but none of them answered him.

He said that one later spoke but angrily told him that his son impregnated a girl, adding that the next thing he heard from the backyard of his house was a gunshot.

Kote’s father said, one of the officers shot his son on the leg and the police team later went away with him while he was bleeding profusely. He said they hid him in a private hospital.

A complaint was later lodged at the state Police headquarters at Moscow road in Port Harcourt while Kote was transferred from the village to a government-owned hospital in Port Harcourt.

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Reports gathered revealed that doctors said he will have to undergo three different surgeries else his leg might be amputated.

As at the time of filling this report, it was not immediately clear if the said girl is related to any of the police officers who attacked Kote.