According to Amnesty International: "Aneke Okorie, a 39-year-old Okada (motorcycle taxi) rider and a father of four, failed to pay a bribe to the police at a checkpoint in Emene, Enugu State, on 15 May 2009. He was shot and later died on his way to the hospital. An eyewitness told Amnesty International that the police officer shot Aneke Okorie in the stomach and then hanged his gun around his neck, to suggest that the police officer was attacked by an “armed robber”. “I realized the young man was innocent… I instructed the policemen to take the gun off his neck… The man was still alive; he was biting his fingers, he could not talk. He was in pain.” The eyewitness was asked not to speak to the media. However, when radio reports in Enugu State claimed the police had killed an “armed robber”, the eyewitness and community leaders wrote a petition to the IGP saying that Aneke Okorie was innocent and asking for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. Three police officers who were involved in the shooting were arrested as a result. In September, one police officer was dismissed and prosecuted; he is currently awaiting trial. The body was released to the family for burial in September, following a postmortem examination. The postmortem report has not been released to the family at the time of writing." ^[+]