Cop kills student, commercial driver over N40 in Enugu

*It’s a lie, says PPRO

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.