A trigger-happy policeman attached to
Central Police Station, Onitsha on Friday 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.
The Nation source said 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 police men 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.
The Nation
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