A 45-year old police officer attached to the Dawakin Kudu Divisional Police Station in Kano State was last weekend crushed by a reckless Hisbah driver.
Investigations revealed that the policeman by name Sergeant Adamu Garba who was at his duty post on Saturday by 11pm hit by the reckless Hisbah driver Zakariyya Usman who was driving against traffic on one-way along Zaria road, crushing his two legs, one of his arms and part of his head.
Speaking with the wife of the police man, Mrs Maryam Adamu Garba at the Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital Kano on Friday August 18, 2017, she lamented that ‘’Since that night my husband was knocked down by the Hisbah vehicle, which was 12th of August 2017, we have been in this hospital. It is the District Police Officer that has being treating him, that night alone, he spent over thirty thousand Naira on his treatment if not for D.P.O Idris Mohammed, my husband would have died because the Hisbah people abandoned him.’’
Also speaking, Joel Adamu Garba, the first among Adamu’s five children maintained that “Only the police people care about our daddy, but the main people who committed this act have since ignored us, my daddy has five children and I am the first among them.
‘’Another problem I am also thinking about is my education, because my daddy was to process my admission into the tertiary institution this year, but with this problem, I just pray he will be better to sponsor me in school.’’
At the Dawakin Kudu Police Divisional Station, some high ranking Police officers who pleaded anonymity revealed that “Hisbah operatives have a habit of always driving against traffic and recklessly especially when chasing trailers in broad daylight or at night not minding the safety of other road users.’’
“If not for our DPO, our colleague would have died because the police have no provision of funds for such now. In the past we used to have but now it has been abolished,” they added.
Painstaking efforts to reach the Hisbah Service Board of Kano State proved abortive as they did not pick calls put to their lines.
However, a close source to Hisbah Service Board of Kano revealed that the management promised to take up Sergeant Adamu Garba’s medical billsbut have since dumped the idea saying they have no funds for such.
Sergeant Adamu Garba sustained various degrees of injuries with four fractures on his legs and deep cuts on his hand and head, making him unable to talk and walk.
