The distraught Chief Superintendent of Police, Mr. Dauda Fika, has vowed to rejoin Nigeria Police Force if he returns to this earth again.
Dauda who was the Commander of Mobile Police (MOPOL) 41 who was lying critically ill on his hospital bed stated this when IGP Usman Baba Alkali visited to commiserate with him over the sad incident and to encourage him to recuperate quickly.
The son of former Assistant Inspector General of Police, late Buba Fika was shot by troops of an Army Battalion in Yobe State on April 13, 2017 when some policemen travelling in his convoy had a minor scuffle with a soldier in Damaturu, capital of Yobe.
The super cop sustained a life-threatening injury in his hips, and as a result of a failed surgery he got permanently blind and has remained incapacitated with spinal cord complications.
Dauda who spoke with TVC NEWS reporter said ”I am sorry that that I love my work more than my family. I put in everything to ensure the growth and upliftment of the force to the utter neglect of my family.
”Despite the sad incident, I still love Nigeria Police. If I return to this earth again, I will rejoin the force. I put life on the life for it,’’ he narrated.
IGP Alkali with all his management team visited the gallant officer Monday, December 20 2021 to reassure the injured officer that the Police Force under his watch did not forget him and other officers who sacrificed their lives for the nation to live in peace.
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Recall that in an earlier interview with journalists, Dauda said though the altercation with soldiers was eventually settled, some hooded soldiers stormed his house, tortured and later whisked him away to a military base inside a bush in the outskirt of Damaturu, the next day.
“I was taken to an Army Battalion from my house. The soldiers, who whisked me away would have killed me when we arrived at their battalion. They threw me and one other MOPOL officer inside a ditch and they cocked their rifles to shoot. But a senior army officer immediately arrived at the scene, and I was taken out of the ditch.
“The army officer took me to his office and ordered me to go and calm my boys, who had already laid siege at the entrance of the Battalion. By then, my boys were already shooting into the air sporadically. They were insisting that I must be released unhurt. So, I came down to meet my boys. They lifted and threw me into the air to welcome me when I got to their place.
“They touched my body to check if I was fine and wasn’t hurt. I eventually calmed their frayed nerves and ordered them to go back to their base. They all left, leaving behind two other MOPOL officers and myself. But it was at that moment, some soldiers who we did not know were trailing us opened fire.
“They killed the two people with me. I was shot twice in the hips and left in a pool of blood. But thank God, a high-ranking army officer, who came and met me lying on the ground ordered that I should be taking to the army hospital. It was while I was there that the State’s Police Commissioner called to inquire if I was truly the one alive.
Though he was evacuated to emergency in a private hospital in Abuja where his case was mismanaged and as a result of a failed surgery, he got permanently blind.
