ASSAULT: Policemen Assault LEADERSHIP Driver In Rivers

A team of over-zealous policemen yesterday attacked a driver attached to LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group, Mr. Sunday Oguji, at Rumuokoro in Obio/Akpor local government area of Rivers State.

Oguji, who was on his way to Port Harcourt from Asaba, the Delta State capital, to deliver yesterday’s edition of LEADERSHIP, was beaten up and tear-gassed by the policemen, who accused him of contributing to the traffic jam witnessed on daily basis around the Rumuokoro roundabout.

It was learnt that the policemen abandoned their victim with a swollen and bloodied eye and bruises as it took the pleas of bystanders for the assailants to let him go.

Narrating his ordeal to LEADERSHIP, Oguji said, “I was coming from Owerri, and as I got to the Port Harcourt gateway, near the market, I noticed a hold-up. There was a vehicle in my front which refused to start, as the traffic started moving slowly, I was about to start my vehicle to move and from nowhere, a mobile policeman showed up and started questioning me. I told him that I was not the one holding the traffic. Before I knew what was happening, he threw tear-gas on my face and I became blind instantly.

“People gathered and the policemen left and continued with their journey while I was rolling on the ground and shouting. Sympathizers brought kerosene and pure water and asked me to wash my face. As I speak with you, I cannot see with one of my eyes.”

The police public relations officer (PPRO) in the state, Ahmad Muhammad, neither picked his calls nor responded to sms sent to him on the matter.

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