Policemen and some officials of the Federal
Road Safety Corps (FRSC) yesterday clashed
in Wuse Zone 2 in the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT). The incident involved plain
clothes and FRSC officials who were on the
road to clear it for the convoy of President
Goodluck Jonathan.
In the ensuing melee, an official of the FRSC
was shot while another was injured.
An eyewitness told LEADERSHIP Weekend
that trouble started when officials of the
FRSC were ordered by the police to leave
their duty post around the Central Area
where President Jonathan’s convoy always
pass to the presidential villa from the
Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport.
It was gathered that the policemen and FRSC
officials of the FRSC were mobilised to the
area ahead of the president’s convoy from
the airport.
The alleged refusal of the FRSC officials to
leave the area which they claimed to be their
duty post to ensure traffic flow angered the
policemen who were led by a divisional
police officer (DPO).
The angry policemen allegedly seized the
Hilux van belonging to the FRSC and arrested
its occupants.
But other officials of the FRSC who got wind
of the news blocked the road at the
intersection of Sultan Abubakar Way and
Olusegun Obasanjo Way at Wuse Zone 2
insisting that their officials and vehicle be
released by the policemen.
“As they were arguing, a senior police officer
used his gun to hit an officer of the FRSC on
the head and another policeman started
shooting into the air and suddenly I saw one
official of FRSC down. That is when we
started running for our lives,” the eyewitness
told LEADERSHIP Weekend.
Another eyewitness said the police were
another shot the official four times. “They
came from Bolingo Hotel area where the
president’s usually pass from the airport and
started shouting at the FRSC men who
barricaded the road with their trucks and
then shot one of the FRSC men four times
but I don’t know if he is still alive, he said”.
At the scene of the clash, officials of FRSC
were seen taking the victims to hospital
while men of the Nigeria police wearing
bullet-proof vests were leaving the area.
LEADERSHIP Weekend learnt that the
operation was carried out by men of the
Abuja Crimes Control Squad 44 (ACCOS 44).
Attempt to speak to the most senior officer
of FRSC at the scene yielded no result as he
declined to comment on the matter. One of
the FRSC officials later said that since the
appointment of the new FCT police
commissioner, Femi Ogunbayode, a directive
was given to the FRSC by the police to leave
the streets of Abuja for the highways outside
the Federal Capital City for their operations.
The police high command refused to respond
to enquiries by our correspondent on the
matter.


http://leadership.ng/news/141213/jonathan-s-convoy-police-shoot-frsc-officer

we buy them guns, they turn around and shoot us with them.na wa o!

While should FRSC officers leave their post because A mere mortal is passing through a road?
nigerian police and their senselessness

Wat do u expect from a lawless country?....next news pls

GEJ End time tynz

...police brutality.

dog eat dog..... nothing mega!!!

Shooooo!. . . .police sef dey do yanga for frsc? .. . . . I no blame dem sha. . . .na so dem senior army dey use dem wash too.
Comedy unlimited of a nation.

If the soldiers are dealing with theese odoriferous nitwits, we'd be complaining.

Police ko, Olopa ni!

Jungle, this country.

But this isn't the first time that GEJ's convoy would be passing that area... Shouldn't they have known the protocol by now?

Anyway, justice must be served on the murderous policeman.

why will FRSC officials refuse to make way for the president..


are they learners what insolence? they deserve whatever treatment they got

Mods pls ban the Op for propaganda, accusation and defamation of character against GEJ.

So finally where did it connect Jonathan?
Someone sees cockroach in his dirty kitchen he calls Jonathan.
Abeg leave GEJ alone.

Naija my country. I hail thee

Only in Oponuchukwu Nigeria.

It will be really senseless for anyone to die for this country leaving his children,wife,mother,father,brothers,sisters and other relatives too numerous to mention to mourn his demise. I can only die protecting them and not otherwise.

you just had to do a GEJ-connected-to-it abi?

Its a pity that man died for nothing, cos nobody will take the matter up, even if the Daftard that was said his convoy will pass hears that a life is lost, and some children are now fatherless cos he was to pass a route, he won't be moved an inch.

shizzle11: why will FRSC officials refuse to make way for the president..


are they learners what insolence? they deserve whatever treatment they got

When I read comments like yours, I can't help but wonder if there is any hope for this country #smh#

Police having operational clashes with FRSC is getting common & deserves attention.
If true, the errant and senseless Police officer deserves a jail term for shooting illicitly.
Front page pls.