The family of Abdulsamad Jamiu, the NYSC corps member killed during a military raid in Dei-Dei, has torn into the Army’s claim that he died in a crossfire.
Their message is blunt: He was executed in his bedroom at 2am.
The Guards Brigade Quick Response Force said troops were responding to a robbery call in Shagari Estate when they came under fire, and Jamiu was hit in the exchange. The family calls that version a lie.
“He was shot in his room,” the family said in a statement. “A bullet was fired through the door from outside, striking him in the head.”
They say the bullet’s path and the damage at the scene tell the real story. No crossfire. No gunfight. Just a single shot through a closed door into a room where a 20-something graduate was sleeping.
The family insists there was no robbery that night. No armed robbers identified. No weapons recovered. No evidence of return fire. “No such adversary has been identified, produced, or accounted for,” they said.
According to the family, soldiers scaled the fence — barbed wire damage is still visible — and left the main gate untouched. Jamiu’s sister was home. She ran out after the gunshot. Soldiers, she says, told her to go outside and “remain calm.”
Neighbors called the local vigilante group. The family alleges soldiers then ordered vigilantes to clean bloodstains at the scene. Evidence wiped before sunrise.
The most damning claim: soldiers later admitted the shooting was a mistake and that an innocent man had been killed. The family says this admission happened in front of the Divisional Police Officer and was put in writing.
If true, it blows the Army’s public “crossfire” story apart.
The family wants an independent probe with civilian oversight — no military whitewash. They demand the officers involved be identified, suspended, and prosecuted. They want the Army’s statement retracted and a public apology issued.
“We demand an immediate, independent and transparent investigation,” they said.
Abdulsamad Jamiu was serving his country. He wore khaki, not a gun. He died not on a battlefield, but in his room, behind a closed door, at 2am.
The Nigerian Army has not responded to the family’s latest allegations.
[Rewitten report Culled from Daily Trust]
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