Police on the rampage at UMTH, shoot doctor in Borno State

Activities at the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) were disrupted, on Thursday, when policemen who brought corpses of their colleagues killed in Bama to the morgue went on the rampage, shooting a medical doctor and beating up some medical staff.
They were also said to have destroyed medical laboratory equipment in the hospital.
A staff of the hospital who did not want his name in print told the Nigerian Tribune that the police were told that the morgue was full, but the police insisted that the corpses must be deposited.
He said: “You know when there is no place to keep corpses, sometimes they are kept on the floor pending when a space is created for refrigerating, but when they came this morning, the mobile policemen went on the rampage and started shooting. They beat up a professor and other medical staff and also shot a medical doctor before some miltary men in the hospital brought the situation under control.”
However, the hospital had been closed, as some doctors had threatened they would no longer attend to policemen who were being brought for treatment almost on daily basis.
The doctors are saying that they deserve some respect from the uniform men because some of the security operatives, particularly the police, have this disrespecting attitude towards them.
Some of these doctors and professor they beat up would have been IGPs if they are in uniforms, but somebody who is far down the ladder  treats them as nobody.
Meanwhile, the Borno State Police Commissioner, Yuguda Abdullahi, was at the UMTH, about four hours after the incident.