Father of the two-year-old boy, who was reportedly killed by stray bullets from operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at Okpanam, Oshimili North Local Government Area, Delta State, Mr.Fidelis Omhonria, has said his family was in need of justice.
He narrated how one of the operatives still corked his gun and threatened to bring him down after he told him (the official) that the gun they fired had killed his son.
The child, Ivan, died at the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, where he was taken to after he was hit on his abdomen by a stray bullet from the operatives, who were chasing drug peddlers during a raid on the notorious joint in the neighbourhood, Thursday.
The deceased’s younger sibling, Erhumossele, who sustained injuries from broken glasses that wounded his eyes, is presently receiving treatment at the hospital.
The children had returned from school at 4.30p.m., on Thursday and were in their mother’s baking shop, when the incident occurred.
Speaking with newsmen at the hospital, Fidelis Omhonria, a native of Ubiaja community, Edo State said his wife and daughter narrowly escaped as they were all in the shop eating corn and pear, when the bullets pierced the son’s stomach and shattered glasses and cupboards in the shop.
He said he had brought the children from school and dropped them off at the wife’s shop and left with the intention of coming back to take them home after the day’s business.
Omhonria said: “My house is about five minutes drive from the shop. I just left the shop and not more than seven minutes, my wife called me, she was shouting ‘babe please come back,’ that she noticed that my son’s intestines were coming out and glasses all over the body of the other boy,
“I had only just got to the gate of my house, so, I decided to go back. She called again and said they were going to FMC and that I should come and meet them there. I went back to the shop and I was asking people what happened, then someone came to tell me that he saw NDLEA officials pursuing boys that sell drugs.
“I saw one Hilux van of NDLEA coming towards the shop, there was another Sienna. They opened the door, fully armed. I saw another Honda, one of them opened the door in front of the shop and these guys were all with pistols and other guns
