Just In: Protesters Launch Massive Attack On Police In Aba Market

Ariaria market traders in Aba, Abia State, launched an attack on the Divisional Crime Officer, identified as Mohammed, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, who narrowly escaped death from the furious crowd.  

The aggrieved crowd were all out to avenge the killing of a trader on Friday that brought the activities around the market into a halt.

Security operatives were said to have stormed the area and caused chaos that led to the death of the said trader. The crowd believed that it was police that did the raid that led to the killing of one of them as they stormed the Ariaria division to protest it.

The Abia State Police Command admitted that although one person was shot in the incident, but the police were not responsible for it.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Udeviotu Onyeke, maintained that, men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency raided the area, which was suspected to be an abode for hard drug sellers and buyers in the state.

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Onyeke disclosed that the operatives of the NDLEA were not granted entrance to the area which they later reinforced and stormed the area again, as such crisis ensued which led to the death of the victim.

The PRO also said that, the mob took the corpse of the victim in a wheel barrow to the Ariaria Police Station to unleash their anger on the police.

He said, “Efforts made by the DCO to explain that the police did not raid the market proved abortive as he was beaten into pulp by the mob. The protesters descended on him, gave him a deep machete cut in the head and he became unconscious. They snatched the DCO’s riffle and phones and was about to set the police station ablaze when they were repelled by policemen from the Aba Area Command.”

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The police spokesman said the DCO was later brough back to life at a hospital in the premises. The angered protesters then attacked a police post in Urata area of the city where two vehicles were burnt.

Onyeke added that no arrests had been made on the issue, but added that police had commenced investigation. He then appealed to Aba residents not to accept any incitement against security agents, adding that those found culpable would be made to face the full wrath of the law.However, the illegal Radio Biafra monitored the incident in Aba gave a different version of the whole incident, broadcasting that “three innocent Biafran activists” were shot by Nigerian soldiers.

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