Police bullet would made me useless – survivor

Nou Koroho was on his way home to Hanuabada after visiting the Nasfund office to sort out his savings on January 23 when he was shot by police.

Koroho is the only survivor among the three men who sustained bullet wounds from the alleged police shooting.  

It has been one year and three days and still not one policemen involved in the shooting is arrested.

Koroho 52 is a qualified crane operator and had just resigned from Bishop Brothers at the time of the incident.

He suffered bullet wounds in his shoulder and had to go through nine hours of surgery to have the bullets removed.

Doctors have declared him unfit for any physical work and because of this, his family now suffers financially.

Pictured here is Koroho showing LOOP News the scars of the operation he went through to have the bullet removed.

 To this day his wounds deep inside have not healed. He suffers from pains that run through to his lower back. He is unable to sleep on his left side and at one stage he went into depression.

Despite promises no financial assistance was given by the Royal Police Constabulary to this man who was shot for no reason.

Koroho has four children; his two elder daughters resigned their jobs to take care of their father.

His two younger sons are in school. One in grade 10 and the other in grade 7.

He is now worried about how he will afford school expenses.

“ I don’t know how I will support my two boys because none of us are working for money,” he says.

His wife supports the family with an average income of K80 from betelnut and smoke sales at the market.

“We buy rice and a tin of fish for dinner every day,” he says.

Koroho’s medical expenses at the Pacific International Hospital are being met by kind hearted friends and family.

Chairman of the Motu-Koita The Way Forward group, Lohia Boe Samuel has spent his own money helping Koroho get medical attention.

Koroho says police have given too many excuses and that they must now reveal the names of those responsible or we will take serious action. 

Author: 
Joy Kisselpar