A trigger-happy policeman attached
to Central Police Station, Onitsha on Friday [Jan 18] shot an Onitsha-based
businessman, Uche Chigele, and a
commercial bus driver, after reportedly flogging them.
The policeman was attached to a
police bullion van escort team.
The state Police Public Relations
Officer, PPRO, Mr. Ralph Uzoigwe,
confirmed the incident. He said the police officer, whose name was withheld by
the police, is facing Orderly Room Trial.
Uzoigwe said if
the police officer is found guilty, he would be dismissed and prosecuted.
According to The Nation, trouble
started for the businessman when the commercial vehicle he boarded along the
New Market Road, Onitsha, Anambra State, met an on-coming bullion van with
police escorts. On getting to Iboku/New Market Road junction, the driver
cleared for the van coming from the opposite direction but two of the police
escorts jumped out from their vehicle and started flogging the driver alleging
that he delayed before clearing for them.
The businessman, Chigele, got irritated by the humiliation
from the flogging of the driver by the policemen and pleaded with them to leave
the driver as he did not commit any offence, having cleared for them to pass
even though they, the police escorts, were on one way drive.
But the two policemen left the driver
and started flogging the businessman for daring them and as the flogging became
unbearable for the businessman, he asked the driver to move the vehicle and he
obeyed him.
Then the policeman pursued the bus
and on getting close to it, shot the businessman on the thigh. His two legs
were affected even as the bullets also caught the driver on his hand. The
businessman and the driver are presently responding to treatment at a nearby
hospital in Onitsha. Chigele said
the aim of the policeman was to kill him.
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