Businesswoman hospitalised after alleged assault by council taskforce in Rivers

A businesswoman successful Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State is receiving aesculapian attraction aft she was allegedly assaulted by members of a taskforce operating nether the section authorities council.

Her husband, Ekweme Egwu, accused the Chairman of Oyigbo Local Government Area of deploying officials who attacked his wife, Ogechi Ekweme, during an enforcement cognition connected July 2.

Egwu, a wholesale drinks dealer, said his wife, who trades successful thrift deterioration and household items, was confronted by members of a assembly taskforce implicit allegations that she had displayed immoderate of her goods on the roadside successful contravention of a directive banning roadside trading.

Recounting the incident, Egwu said helium was attending to customers astatine his shop, located astir other his wife’s concern premises, erstwhile a nonmigratory rushed to alert him that taskforce operatives were assaulting her.

“The section authorities task unit is sidesplitting your wife. They are beating her,” Egwu quoted the antheral arsenic saying.

When helium got to the scene, Egwu alleged that helium recovered a subordinate of the taskforce confiscating his wife’s mobile phone.

He said helium demanded that it beryllium returned, arguing that nationalist officials carrying retired lawful duties should not entity to being filmed.

Rather than instrumentality the phone, helium alleged that the officials descended connected him and his wife.

Egwu identified th...