Soldier Commits Suicide After Killing A Customs Officer In Seme

 

A soldier who killed a Customs officer at Seme Border on Wednesday has taken his own life.

 

According to NAN, the soldier attached to 243 Recce Battalion Ibereko, Badagry, LCP Mahmud Sulaiman, turned the gun on himself.

 

It was earlier reported that he was drunk.

 

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the incident occurred when the team leader was trying to retrieve the gun from Sulaiman following his strange behavior.

 

“But unfortunately, the customs officer died at about 6:40 a.m. on Thursday in the hospital. “Subsequently, Sulaiman also shot himself and died on the spot,” the source said.

 

NAN gathered that the incident occurred at about 7:45 p.m. on Wednesday at Oloko checkpoint, Gbaji on Badagry-Seme expressway. It was learnt that Sulaiman, who was recently redeployed to the Ibereko Battalion from the Theater of Operation in the North-East, had been behaving abnormally since assumption of duty in Badagry.