Governor David Nweze Umahi of Ebonyi state gave an order to immediately arrest the yet to be identified police officer who shot and killed a commercial motorcyclist over N50 bribe refusal.

A yet to be identified police officer yesterday night shot and killed a commercial motorcyclist who allegedly refused to give him the N50bribe he asked for.

The incident which happened along waterworks road saw a man driving what locals refer to as Okada at Anan world junction as he was challenged by the policemen of the anti-kidnapping squad of Ebonyi State Police Command.

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The victim of the ugly incident is believed to be in his early 20s and was conveying a female passenger when he was stopped by the police officers in their usual act of fleecing motorists of their money at night at the junction.

The eyewitness recounted the incident saying, “When they stopped him, they demanded their usual N50 but he gave them N20 and wanted to drive off when one of them opened fire on him. The bullet shattered his head and he died instantly,”

The incident immediately escalated into a troubling scene as residents not far from the scene gathered and attempted to lynch the officers, using tires to set burn fires on the road, but the policemen were saved by the arrival of a new detachment of police officers who used tear gas to scatter the angry mob and also shooting sporadically into the air.

As the news got to the governor of the state, he ordered the immediate arrest of the policemen who were involved in the death of the deceased.

Governor David Nweze Umahi who spoke through Emmanuel Uzor, his Chief Press Secretary, described the incident as “barbaric and callous”.

He also assured that justice will be done in the killing of the deceased promising to work with the police to nail the culprit and have them prosecuted.

As at the time of the report, it is unclear if the lady was also hit by the bullet of the policemen.

This sad incident happened just the same day we reported that a heavily drunk NDLEA officer macheted a civil servant to death the LG secretariat in Alomosho LG in Lagos state.

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