Arise News247 reports that a Muslim soldier has just shot a Christian Yoruba boy to death in front of Command Secondary School in Command Junction By Sabo Express Road, Kaduna.
An eye witness, Joshua Ayo, who spoke with Arise News247 Kaduna correspondent said that the boy was packing sand in front of the Military Secondary School called Command Secondary School when the soldier ordered him to stop.
Ayo added that, “the boy who is a Yoruba Christian pleaded with the soldier to allow him pack the sand to get something to eat today, since he was packing inside gutter that belongs to nobody.”
Our source added that the soldier “got angry and shouted, ‘Who the hell is this bloody civilian to argue with me?’ and the boy was approaching him when the soldier again said, ‘And you advancing towards me?’ and before one could say Jack Robinson we heard gunshot and people around ran away, then another gunshot that attracted people from other places,” Ayo lamented
He further explained that it was when other people started running down that those who were running away turned back to join them.
“On getting back to the spot, the soldier was nowhere to be found: we only met the lifeless body of the boy in the pool of his own blood stone dead.” He concluded.
Arise News247 correspondent asked if there could be any other reason that might have incited the soldier to have shot the boy dead. Ayo said, that they know the soldier and they know he is a Muslim, adding that since the soldier may be fasting, may be the mention of packing sand to sell to eat provoked him.
All efforts to get the story from the side of the military was abortive as Christian youths have gathered massively in front of the
