Eyewitness told our correspondent that trouble started when
a mobile police officer who was acting as escort for three nationals
beat up an Anambra State Traffic Management(ATMA) official for stopping
the vehicle conveying him for other road users to pass.
The ATMA official who alerted his colleagues mobilised and
blocked the vehicle conveying the Chinese from moving, while also
alerting the Anambra state police commissioner who sent his men to the
scene to calm the situation.
The police officer who had also mobilised his Mon through
phone calls to the scene, on hearing that the commissioner had
despatched men to the scene tried to escape.
They shot sporadically in the air to scare the ATMA
officials, but were not so lucky as commissioner's men arrived and
arrested them.
Speaking with our correspondent, the ATMA Commandant,
Comrade Chidi Umezinwa said the major challenge his men face in the
course of their duty is refusal by uniformed men to comply to traffic
officials.
"Today, we witnessed the sane thing, but thank God the
police commissioner wadded in and arrested the culprit, and he has been
locked up at B Division" umezinwa said.
The PPRO of Anambra police command, Mr Ali okechukwu could not confirm this to us as his phone rang out without answer.
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