[NEWS]Delta policemen collects bribes with PoS machines –Brutalised a 54-year-old driver

Delta policemen collects bribes with PoS machines –Brutalised a 54-year-old driver




One Mr Sunny Uzorga from Kwale, Delta, a driver, works with Delta Appreciate Motors, was plying the Asaba-Ughelli route on July, 28 when he got battered by a policeman at a checkpoint.

He stated that The policemen that stay around Nsukwa junction flagged down his vehicle and he stopped. They asked one of his passengers to get down from the vehicle and he did. Then they started checking the contents of the pockets of the young man.
They found two phones in his pockets and said they would not release him, but he begged them to release him. He explained to them that since he was the one who carried him from the park, there was no way he would bring him to the junction and leave him behind. One of the policemen, an inspector, shouted at him and later ordered the young man to enter their van.
The inspector threatened to shoot his tyres. He begged him not to do that.  Another police inspector asked the other inspector to leave me but he refused. Suddenly, the first inspector hit me in the chest and I fell down.


They started threatening the young man and eventually took him somewhere. They collected N20,000 from him even though he did not commit any offence.
I managed to drive to Ugheli and later went for treatment because I was badly injured but my chest still hurts.
By the time he returned to Asaba on that day, it was already late. So, the following morning, after my treatment at the Federal Medical Centre, he went to police headquarters to lodge a complaint with the help of a human rights activist, Mr Victor Ojei, though the policemen have been calling and begging him over the incident.

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