A soldier known as Mahmud Sulaiman attached to 243 Recce battalion in Ibereko, Badagry, has reportedly committed suicide after he shot an officer of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) in Lagos.
The incident is said to have occurred around 7:45pm on Wednesday at Oloko checkpoint, Gbaji, on the Badagry-Seme expressway.
A source said a senior military officer was trying to retrieve a gun from Sulaiman following his “strange behaviour” before the firearm went off.
The customs officer, who was attached to Seme border area command, was then rushed to Badagry General Hospital for treatment. But unfortunately, the customs officer died at about 6:40am on Thursday in the hospital.
Subsequently, Sulaiman was also said to have shot himself and died on the spot.
According to NAN, the officer was recently redeployed to the Ibereko battalion from the theatre of operation in the north-east, and had been “behaving abnormally” since he reported at his duty post in Badagry.
According to report, he always cocks his AK-47 rifle, fully loaded with ammunition – an action that made his team leader to report the matter to the commanding officer of 243 Recce Battalion, Colonel Nicholas Rume, where he was serving.
