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Nigeria: Protest As Police Kill Bus Conductor
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This Day (Lagos)
16 May 2008
Posted to the web 16 May 2008
Francis Ugwoke
Enugu
The serene environment of the coal city, Enugu, yesterday erupted in a riot as transporters protested the killing of a bus conductor by the Police.
The conductor who was simply identified as Obiajulu in his twenties met his untimely death from a stray bullet said to have been fired by policemen who were chasing hoodlums at a notorious hideout somewhere in Obiagu.
Obiajulu, according to an eye witness was standing on the road side on Wednesday night when the stray bullet from the Police who were said to have fired into the air apparently to scare the hoodlums hit him on the waist.
Following the incident, it was gathered that the bus drivers organized themselves as a group to protest the killing.
Our source said that the police team who killed the bus conductor had attempted to take his corpse but was stopped by the protesters who blocked the road to stop movement of vehicles.
The police team had on noticing the mounting tension mobilized more officers to ensure that the protesters did not go beyond Obiagu.
It was gathered that the aggrieved relations of the late conductor took his corpse to the mortuary late Wednesday night.
However, drivers and conductors regrouped early yesterday morning to continue the protest, a development that made movement in the city difficult.
In a bid to ensure that the protest was not hijacked by miscreants to cause serious mayhem in the city, the Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Suleiman Fakai was forced to come to the scene to pacify the relatives of the deceased and the commercial bus drivers and conductors.
Fakai who admitted that it was a mistake from the Police urged the protesters not to take the laws into their hands.
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He promised that the Police were carrying out full investigation into the matter, and will bring to book the officers responsible for the killing.
In as much as the Nigeria police continue to use the draconian and obnoxious training manual designed by the British colonialism,which unfortunately the civilised Nigerian elite has been unable to identify the continuous damage such implementation of the content of the said manual has been inflicting to the lives and well being of innocent and defenceless Nigerians. Inpossible comparision is the fact that neither in Britain or USA could a policeman no matter the circumstance surrounding the nature of active operation warranting the use of maximum force from the power of bullet discharge from the mussle of a gun could... [Read Full Text]
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