Daily Post reports that some local vigilante operatives who are attached to Anambra State Commissioner for Homeland Security, Hon Chikodi Anarah, have brutalized a commercial tricycle (Keke) operator in Awka.
Colleagues of the victim, who protested in Awka, said the tricyclist was beaten mercilessly.
According to them, the windshield of his Keke was shattered by the security operatives, who also punctured the tricycle’s tyres with bullets.
Narrating his ordeal in a viral video, the Keke driver said his offence was that he overtook the vehicle carrying the commissioner in a tight corner because of an incoming articulated vehicle.
The unnamed tricyclist said, “I had to take the action to overtake the commissioner’s vehicle to avoid possible accident because of the incoming articulated vehicle in a very tight corner.
“I was surprised when the commissioner’s boys descended on me and rough handled and shot at my Keke.”
This is coming barely two months after security operatives attached to another of Soludo’s aides, Ossy Onuko, who is the Managing Director of Awka Capital Territory Development Agency, beat up a GUO Motors driver, who was coming from Lagos, for overtaking their convoy.
One of the protesters, Sunday Okagu, said, “The action of the vigilante operatives was an unwarranted and unprovoked aggression.
“We call on the Anambra State Government to ensure that the only release guns and ammunition to people who are mentally capable of handling such and not to trigger-happy youths who did not have any form of professional training.”
Another protester, who refused to disclose his name, added, “Vigilante operatives attached to Igba ka Igba Amanuke (the commissioner) usually behaved like cultists on rampage.
“This man did not do anything to warrant the kind of beating they have given to him.”
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Oh Nigeria my country, when are we going to get out of this jungle kind of fife? May God deliver the weak from the strong and mighty in the land. Amen
What a lawless society.
A commissioner, not a governor nor a president.
Nigerian police have not done their worst.
When they do, all these will stop
this is pure wickedness
none of them should be spared for this level of brutality
First,it used be informed security men that brutulizes people. Today is local vigilantees. When will this stop in Nigeria. Citizens rights must be respected
No,this is an injustice,in Nigeria here things like this happens everyday,the rich man is above the law here,so is the commissioner not a citizen like the tricycle man
This is what we will always see when we pack illiterate put for force, we don’t have standard in this country our system is too backward.
This security men won’t fight criminal but they go get strenght they beat inocent men
God oooo brutalized ke, because me I don’t understand anymore oooo
Why nah I thought they said that overtaking is allowed why his own case different, very very unfair
I pray they did not turn the issue to something else, because they are very risky
We should give honor to whom honor is due, he should have just let the entourage pass, and he will just follow them.
That serve him right, he did not suppose to overtake any convoy what so ever, even if the convoy is not security convoy let it be vigilanty convoy he did not surpost to overtake them……
It’s haven’t reach the level of beating people because of state commissioner