Following a customer-client misunderstanding, Officers of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, on Thursday night, September 7, 2023, repelled a violent protest that erupted over the alleged killing of a fashion designer by an officer of the Department of State Services.

The officer shot sporadically, is accused of killing one and injuring several people.

The DSS Officer was brought to the fashion designer’s shop by the customer to report the alleged failure to deliver some clothes on an agreed date. Many around tried to intervene but didn’t succeed.

An anonymous report that the operative was arrested and detained by the police after he allegedly shot and killed the fashion designer.

“A female customer of the fashion designer brought the DSS. She said the fashion designer did not sew her clothes. Her colleagues joined and defended her. The issue led to a serious argument.

“We later heard a gunshot and learned that the fashion designer had been killed and another injured. The DSS operative was arrested and detained at Wuse Market Police Station. That is where all our people are now,” the trader said.

While reacting to the situation in a statement on Thursday, SP Josephine Adeh the spokesperson of the  FCT Police Command, said, “In an incident at Garki International Market on September 7, 2023, an altercation arose between market occupants and certain individuals, including a DSS personnel and a tailor named Muhammad Habibu.

The Garki Divisional Police station mobilised officers in response to a received distress call reporting the invasion of the market by these individuals, who fired shots at a tailor known as Mubarak Mubarak”.