A medical doctor based in Yenagoa, Dr Samson Bekewari, has threatened to drag the authorities of the Ni­geria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to court over alleged attempt by its personnel to shoot and kill him over a mi­nor incident of knocking down a stray dog.

Dr Bekewari had on April 28, 2017 escaped death following the decision by an NSCDC person­nel, Akpoghomhe Jude, to shoot at his car twice following the knocking down of a stray dog that ran into his car and he attempted to rescue the dog. The incident, which triggered outcry among residents of Yena­goa and members of the state chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), was how­ever fixed for peaceful resolution between the NSCDC and the NMA.

But the peace meeting, which was held in the office of the State Commandant of the NSCDC, Mr Desmond Agu failed due to alleged harassment and undue threat of violence. Confirming the development to newsmen in Yenagoa, Dr Bekewari alleged that the peace moves broke down when the Bayelsa State Commandant of NSCDC allegedly manhandled him for the second time in his of­fice while they were negotiating the truce.

He stressed that he would pur­sue the matter within the ambit of the law to its logical conclusion saying it would serve as deterrent to any other trigger-happy officer of the paramilitary agency. The president of the Associa­tion of Resident Doctors in the state, Dr Ebimobowei Nathan also stated that the association tried to broker peace in order to douse the tension but the peace deal got stuck and eventually broke down when Agu manhan­dled Bekewari and the associa­tion’s lawyer at the NSCDC com­mand office in Yenagoa.

The Authority