Policeman murders three driver in Anambra over N20,
Latest News Jun 24, 2010 By Vincent Ujumadu


AWKA — A MOBILE police officer at a check point in the commercial town of Onitsha in Anambra State who killed a taxi driver yesterday for allegedly refusing to offer him N20 is to be dismissed and charged to court for murder.

Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Anambra State, Mr. Emeka Chukwuemeka, who confirmed the incident, said the police officer had been arrested and was being detained at the State Police headquarters in Awka.

According to the PPRO, the officer will be tried departmentally before beingtaken to court. He added that he was already on his way out of the police force.

The incident came barely one week after another police officer in the town shot dead a bus driver at the popular Upper Iweka, just as another police man shot a commercial driver at the old toll gate in Onitsha after tearing to pieces the driver’s license, which grounded movement for several hours, following a violent protests by commercial drivers who blocked the Express Way with their vehicles.

Yesterday’s incident, which occurred on the over – head bridge at the same Upper Iweka area along the Enugu-Onitsha Express Way at about 1 00 pm, threw passers-by into panic as some transporters who watched what happened went after the police team at the check point.

An eyewitness told Vanguard that the taxi driver was descending the fly-over when he ran into the police road block.

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By Tony Edike

ENUGU— NORMAL business activities were paralysed in some parts of Enugu State capital, yesterday, as angry members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Abakpa-Nike, Enugu branch, defied the early morning rain to protest the killing of their member and a secondary school student by the police in Enugu.

Vanguard learnt that the incident occurred when a police officer, whose identity was not ascertained at press time, reportedly demanded for N40.00 bribe from the bus driver, but the driver only agreed to part with N20.00.

Both the commercial driver and the student, who was identified as a student of Trans-Ekulu Girls Secondary School, Enugu, were said to have been hit by a stray bullet fired by the policeman who got enraged by the driver’s refusal.

Irked by the ugly development, a spontaneous reaction enrupted, leading to barricading of the road leading to Abapka-Nike, from Enugu heartland, by commercial drivers in the area.

It was further learnt that the trigger-happy policeman took to his heels in a vehicle of a combined patrol team of Army and Police immediatley he saw the two victims in a pool of their blood.

Police story
State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, said when contacted yesterday, that no one died, adding that some people only sustained injuries when the bus conveying them had an accident.

He said the bus driver conveying passengers refused to stop at police checkpoint when ordered to do so by the patrol team and in an attempt to speed off, lost control of the vehicle.



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You are right, illiteracy was never a problem in Nigeria. It is only a problem in US and UK.

I'm yet to see one good trait in our Nigerian police. The NPF remains a force of evil in Nigeria.