A twenty eight years old pregnant woman, Mary Pelemo was allegedly killed by some men in Army uniform in Magongo, Ogori/Magongo local government council in Kogi state.
According to one of her elder brother, Mr. Idowu Pelemo the late woman disclosed to newsmen on Thursday that the incident occurred on Wednesday night at about 9 pm in Magongo.
He said some men in military uniform in three convoys Hilus van with registration number Lokoja 446 KG with another one painted in army colour with registration number 014 chased a driver from Ibilo in Edo state to Magongo.
He narrated that immediately the driver of the vehicle got to Magongo, he alerted from his vehicle and escaped, adding that the men in army uniform started shooting sporadically as people started to run for the lives, but his sister who was standing in front of her house was hit by a stray bullets.
He said the men in army uniform rushed her to the hospital and escaped, but later her late pregnant sister died that same night.
” Those men in army uniform normally station their vans along Ageva. From what one of the soldier man told me, he said they wanted to arrest the driver because the driver and some of his collugues missbahaved to some of their officers in Okene,” he said.
He mentioned that the men in army uniform, following a tip off they ambush the said driver who was coming from Ibilo in Edo state and was heading to Okene, and on getting to Magongo he ran out of his car and the men in army uniform started shooting sporadically which led to the dead of the woman.
Meanwhile, the Public Relation Officer of the Nigerian Army in Kogi state, Major Jafaru Muhammed while speaking said “the Army was not involved in any operations please,”. He said.
