By Oluwatosin Maliki
The Nigerian Secret Police Department of State Services (DSS), allegedly shot two people on Thursday evening, at the international market in the Garki 2 area of Abuja.
It was gathered that the trouble ensued when a woman had invited a DSS operative to threaten a tailor she had given clothes to work on, after having delayed the job for some time.
Admist the DSS intervention, the tailor took to his heels to avoid being manhandled by the DSS operative, but was allegedly shot in the leg by the DSS operative, while a stray bullet also hit a girl nearby.
Consequently, this sparked an outrage by other tailors in the market which led them to descending on the shooter and beat him up mercilessly, as well as the police outpost in the market after the police officers there came to the aide of the DSS operative in a bid stop to stop the pandemonium.
The police thereafter called for backup and reinforced themselves returning to the market, firing teargas to disperse the angry tailors.
Meanwhile, the FCT police command in a statement explained that normalcy has been restored to the area and weapons used during the altercation have been recovered.
The DSS said, that it has launched an investigation into the shooting by its personnel.
