Pandemonium at Onitsha Head Bridge as policeman shoots trader over N5,000 bribe

There was pandemonium successful Onitsha connected Wednesday astatine the River Niger Head Bridge, aft a policeman allegedly changeable a trader implicit statement resulting from outgo of N5,000 bribe.

Though the allegation could not beryllium instantly verified, sources said the antheral was pushing pharmaceutical products successful a wheelbarrow to a centrifugal parkland successful effort to waybill them to a lawsuit erstwhile the incidental happened.

The shooting caused traders to artifact the roadworthy successful protest, starring to a immense postulation gridlock, portion the policeman who carried retired the enactment was said to person rapidly disappeared.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police successful Anambra State, CP Nnanna Oji Ama, has visited the country and addressed aggrieved traders.

He said the incidental arose from a confrontation during an attempted arrest, stating that the contiguous precedence of the bid was to guarantee that the victim’s retrieve fully.

The spokesperson of the authorities constabulary command, SP Tochukwu Ikenga said the incidental occurred erstwhile a fishy allegedly resisted arrest, resulting successful gunshot injuries.

Ikenga said: “The Commissioner of Police subsequently visited the victims astatine t...