A commercial tricycle (Keke) operator in Awka, Anambra State capital, has been reportedly brutalised by local vigilante operatives attached to the state Commissioner for Homeland Security, Hon Chikodi Anarah.
NIGERIACRIME gathered that the vigilantes shattered the windshield of his tricycle and also punctured his tyres with bullets.
Protesting the ill treatment, colleagues of the victim, lamented that the tricyclist was beaten mercilessly.
The keke driver, who narrated his ordeal in the hands of the vigilante group disclosed that his only offence was to overtake the convoy of the commissioner.
He explained that he overtook the vehicle 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.
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“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 they 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 cultia sa ts on rampage.
“This man did not do anything to warrant the kind of beating they have given to him.”