The director of operations to the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Comrade Shehu Shugaba, has called on the Commissioner of Police, for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), CP Ahmed Mohammed Sanusi, to investigate the killing of an AMAC revenue staff, Mr. Oladipupo Akinola, last Friday at NITEL Junction, in Wuse 2, Abuja.

Shugaba, who stated this during an interview with our reporter said that the FCT Police Commissioner, including other security agencies in the territory should investigate the matter to ensure justice for the deceased and the family.

Our correspondent gathered that the deceased revenue officer, who worked under the Mobile Advert Permit department of AMAC, was allegedly shot and killed by an officer of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in broad daylight during a routine enforcement operation of
identifying vehicles in default of the 2026 operational permits.

The AMAC director of operations explained that the late AMAC revenue staff, along with his colleagues, had stopped a Hilux vehicle at the NITEL Junction to know if the vehicle is an operational vehicle or a private vehicle.

He said that the revenue officers in performing their routine duties discovered that the vehicle was a vehicle owned by a Chinese company, and therefore, demanded for the 2026 operational permits.

Shugaba said that the revenue officers also discovered that the vehicle was carrying 2025 operational vehicle permits, which had already expired.

He continued: “And when the revenue officers arrested the vehicle, for having expired documents, one of the occupants of the vehicle made a call to their office, and shortly after that two men wearing civil defence uniforms joined the vehicle occupants.

“It was during an altercation between the civil defence officers, the vehicle occupants, and the AMAC revenue officers that one of the civil defence officers shot and killed the AMAC staff.”

He explained further that as soon as the revenue officer was shot and killed, the occupants of the vehicle, along with the civil defence officers quickly jumped into the vehicle and drove off, without anybody identifying the said vehicle or the occupants.

He maintained that many AMAC revenue officers on Abuja roads, are not touts, but genuine officers who are doing their legitimate duties of collecting revenue for the government, adding that residents should respect them as they perform their duties.