Business and vehicular actions have been on Wednesday grounded on the Igueomo junction, alongside the Benin-Asaba expressway as offended youths suspected to be of Northern extraction blocked the highway to protest the alleged capturing to dying of considered one of their members by policemen.
reporter experiences that the sufferer was allegedly hit by a police stray bullet when the officers arrived within the space to arrest some suspected hoodlums.
The yet-to-be-identified sufferer was mentioned to have been hit by the stray bullet in entrance of a POS retailer the place he had gone to switch the sum of ₦4000 to his spouse in his residence village.
The irate youths, who blocked the ever-busy expressway, additionally set a bonfire, guaranteeing that nobody had entry to both facet of the highway.
An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity mentioned the police have been within the space to arrest some hoodlums and determined to fireplace gunshots on the fleeing hoodlums and within the course of, a stray bullet hit the sufferer and died on the spot.
In keeping with him, “Some Benin boys had a problem with the police. Among the officers stormed the world and within the means of chasing the boys, they fired their weapons on the fleeing boys, the bullet hit the sufferer and he died on the spot.
“The sufferer was mentioned to have simply transferred the sum of ₦4000 to the spouse. When he heard of the commotion exterior, it was mentioned that he determined to run for canopy, solely to be hit by a stray bullet.
“Being that the complete space is dominantly populated by Hausa indigenes, they got here out in giant numbers and blocked the highway in protest. They even vandalized some police autos that handed the world this (Friday) morning.”
“This impromptu blockade left commuters stranded, with passengers compelled to disembark from buses arriving from each the Asaba and Benin metropolis instructions”, he mentioned.
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer of the Edo State Police Command, SP Chdi Nwabuzor, mentioned he was not conscious of the incident. He requested for extra time to seek out out what transpired.
