According to eyewitnesses’
account, the deceased had refused to give the soldiers at the checkpoint the
N100 they had demanded.
The soldier attached to the
Army checkpoint located at Ohanze Isiahia community, in Obingwa council area of
Abia State, reportedly shot dead a commercial motorcyclist
identified as
Chimaobi Uzuokwa Nwogu, for allegedly refusing to part with N100 bribe.
One of the soldiers was
said to have pursued Chimaobi on another motorcycle.
The soldier was said to
have trailed him to his village in Umuokereke Ngwa community in the same
Obingwa LGA and shot him dead in front of his father’s compound.
Chimaobi’s wife is heavily
pregnant and may deliver, the eyewitnesses added.
One of the eyewitnesses
said, “We saw a soldier pursuing Chimaobi.
“We were still wondering
what might have happened when the soldier shot him and he fell from his
motorcycle.
“The soldier fled the scene
immediately.
“Now, Chimaobi’s wife is
heavily pregnant and may soon put to bed. He left three children, who is going
to take care of them?”
Meanwhile, youths in the
community have taken his corpse to Ohanze community where the soldiers’
checkpoint was located.
They also set the military
checkpoint on fire, even as the soldiers watched without fighting back.
When our Correspondent
visited contingent of mobile policemen
was seen at a strategic area of the Opobo Junction as people hurried home to
avoid being cut in the web.
The police were later
joined by a convoy of military vans who arrested some of the protesting youths
as more anger flow like ocean.
Efforts to get the reaction
of the Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, 14 Brigade, Ohafia, Major
Kadiri Aliu, was not successful as he refused to pick his calls; nor did he
respond to text messages sent to his mobile number.
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