According to reports, troops on patrol in the Fakai Local Government Area of Kebbi South shot and killed an unidentified individual at Bajida Polling Unit 001.
The man was fatally shot for trying to steal a vote box from Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, personnel during the ongoing supplementary polls in the state.
The dead, a volunteer vigilante organization in the area known as Yansakai, was a member, according to local eyewitnesses.
He allegedly broke into the voting booth while posing as a security guard.
At the voting booth, he was allegedly trying to steal a gun from a soldier when he was shot.
“He and his group rushed to the polling unit trying to snatch the ballot box as INEC officials were moving the ballot box to the collation centre.
“Efforts to stop him by people at the polling unit failed and as he struggled to collect the gun from a soldier he was shot by another soldier,” an eyewitness said.
