A mobile policeman was on Tuesday evening
killed when a tipper driver allegedly lost control of
his lorry as a result of brake failure and crashed
into a police checkpoint at New Tarzan Junction,
along Enugu/Onitsha Expressway in Anambra
State
Divisional Police Officer at Ogidi, Hassan Musa,
confirmed to newsmen yesterday that a
policeman lost his life due to the accident, while
two others were hospitalized, adding that the
driver has been arrested.
According to reports, the driver lost control as he
descended the hill towards the police
checkpoint, and crashed into another lorry
carrying a container that fell on the policemen.
Some eye-witnesses at the scene of the incident
blamed the tipper driver for reckless driving, while
others blamed the policemen for always creating
artificial traffic jam along the road in a bid to
extort money from commercial motorists.
They said the roadblock was created after the
recent protests by members of the Indigenous
People of Biafra, IPOB and the police have
since turned that checkpoint into an extortion
point.
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