Youths Set Police Station Ablaze Over Killing

….Protesting women and youths have burnt down the Kafin-koro police divisional office in in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State, following the killing of a Catholic priest, Isaac Achi, of Saint Peter and Paul Catholic Church, on Sunday.

A resident of the community simply identified as Jonathan narrated how the incident happened.

……Jonathan said that some women comprising ECWA and Catholic women groups converged on the premises of the burnt parish at 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday to offer prayers against those who burnt the Catholic priest to death

“As the women were praying, some policemen arrived that they were a detachment from the Kafin-koro Police Division drafted to the church to provide protection for the praying women.

“The women rejected the protection and requested that the police should leave because the police didn’t provide protection for the dead priest neither did they show up on time when they were called,” he said.

Jonathan said that at first, the police refused to leave the residence of the late priest but eventually did.

,,,,,,The women were later joined by youths to hold a peaceful protest. Jonathan claimed that police shot in to the air to disperse the protesters but a stray bullet hit a villager, who died. The protest turned violent from there.