Army recked Umuahia's railway Police Station
A report has it that army troops stormed the railway police station, Umuahia in
the Abia State capital on monday and took the divisional police
officer (DPO) and some other policemen after a severe beatings for
the arrest of an army captain who parked his bus at an unauthorised place close to the station.
The ruckus started around 11 am on Monday 22nd of February when the DPO, who newly assumed office the previous Thursday 18th of February was driving to his office and spotted a bus parked close to the station and got down from his from his car shouting out order to know who parked the vehicle.
While the DPO was raging, the owner of the bus came and opted to remove his vehicle but the DPO refused all pleas and ordered his men to arrest him .
It was then that the bus owner identified himself as an army captain, which even got the DPO more furious.
“If you are any army captain how many wars have you fought? I have
fought in three Boko Haram states and you are resisting my arrest order,”
the DPO barked out.
The scene grew more intense and gathered a large crowd of passerbys and onlookers as the efforts of two police officers to arrest the Army Captain proved futile.
In the cause of the struggle, the Army Captain's clothes got torn. The police men who were trying to subdue the Army had to fire a shot into the air which set the onlookers enjoying the scene into a pandemonium.
The police beatup the Army Captain and any civilian insite, making shop owners to close their shops and ran for their dear lives.
Later on ‘At last the army officer eventually agreed to enter the
police station, but a lady who knew him and had pleaded with the policemen
to let him go was seen making a phone call.
In an instance Army patrol vans arrived at the police station from all angles. The
first patrol van arrived with four soldiers, who made straight for the police
station and were seen arguing with the DPO.
But by the time the third and fourth patrol vans arrived, more troops
poured into the scene increasing their number to 20. The atmosphere was
intensely charged, following the ordeal of which the policemen started.
The army officers aggressively descended on the DPO and his junior colleagues beating the scrap out of them before bundling them into vans and drove away.
Only one policeman was left in the station to tell the tell.
Finally some minutes later three police patrol vans from the Central Police Station (CPS),
Umuahia, arrived at the scene but the deed has been done.
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