Orahii Samuel
witnessed the unfortunate incident and is calling on the Nigerian Police Force,
Benue State Command to intervene in order to prevent loss of life. He wrote;
"This
policeman, Mobile Unit on duty on Saturday, August 20th at about 2pm at Igyula
along Gboko-Aliade Road took alcohol to stupor and was seriously misbehaving by
threatening road users with the gun. I tried getting his service number and
name but his jacket covered the tags.
I saw him
assure a commercial driver that he would have wasted his life by shooting him
dead if it was at night, just because the driver told him that he does not have
money to settle them.
He added that
in Maiduguri, a driver can't waste a policeman's time to begin to explain that
he doesn't have money for settlement; the police will just shoot the driver
dead and throw him in the bush.
He warned the
driver not to say a pleading word again rather than quietly settle them. One of
the passengers who saw how the driver's vehicle has been having faults while
they were coming gave him N30 to give to the policeman and plead further.
When the
driver removed the N30 to give to the policeman, he asked him how much it was.
The driver replied him that it's N30. The policeman became infuriated and
started beating up the driver with his gun. He said the driver has insulted him
by giving him N30.
His colleagues
intervened but could not stop him. They told this reporter that their superior
colleague is drunk and confessed he has been behaving like that since morning.
According to them, they can't stop him because he is their superior.
I write this
to request the Nigerian Police Force to call Gboko Command to trace this
unprofessional policeman on duty yesterday at Igyula Community along
Gboko-Aliade Road using the attached pictures. Those plying that route should
also take caution in order not to risk their lives.
In the second
picture below with money on ground in front of the policeman, he was doing so
while trying to prove to the driver that he has enough money and not hungry
enough to collect N30 from him"
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