Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:51 am Post subject: BLOODBATH AVERTED: POLICE,SOLDIERS AGAIN CLASH IN LAGOS



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Bloodbath Averted As Police, Soldiers Clash

Vanguard (Lagos)

January 9, 2006
Posted to the web January 9, 2006

Albert Akpor
Lagos

ANOTHER bloodbath between the police and the soldiers was averted weekend in Lagos after a policeman attached to Police Mobile Force (PMF), MOPOL 22 Ikeja, was seriously beaten by a group of soldiers at Oando Filling Station, Maryland, Lagos.

His uniform was torn and later abducted to Ikeja Cantonment by the soldiers who reports said, did not stop at that, but went further to mobilise other soldiers from the barracks with a view to attacking some policemen at the scene.

However, the situation was brought under control after the Officer-in-Charge of the Police Patrol Team at Maryland pin-down point quickly put a distress call to the Brigade Commander of the Cantonment who in turn called his boys to order.

Police sources said trouble started after a police man identified as Eleisha Musa with Force number 250122 PC attached to MOPOL 22 simply went to plead with an unidentified Lance Corporal, who was at the time beating up a commercial bus driver who was conveying the constable and other passengers.

The cause of the battering of the bus driver sources said, followed allegation that the bus driver had earlier ran into the soldier man's Toyota car with registration number BZ-460 MMB and escaped. But the driver, it was gathered denied such claims, adding that he never hit any vehicle that day let alone hitting and escaping.

He was said to have urged the soldier man to inquire from a staff, referring to the MOPOL in the vehicle so as to satisfy his curiosity. Vanguard gathered that the explanation from the commercial driver did not go down well with the soldier who promptly pulled and dealt him several blows. Agitated by the unprofessional attitude of the soldier man, the police officer was said to have casually alighted from the bus and pleaded with the soldiers who instead left the bus driver and pounced on him.
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Vanguard (Lagos)

January 10, 2006
Posted to the web January 10, 2006

Emma Amaize
Warri

THE police and army clashed, yesterday evening, in Effurun, Delta state, over a traffic offence committed by a solider and in the ensuing battle, some of the female traffic police were bloodied by the soldiers.

It was a free-for -all fight as soldiers, not minding that their victims, who were females and law enforcement agents like themselves, kicked the policewomen, dragged them on the road and beat them like animals.

Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that one of the three traffic policewomen at Okorodudu junction, Effurun, flagged down a soldier who was riding a motorcycle but he refused to stop, apparently because he is a solider.

The female traffic warden stepped in front of the motorcycle to stop the soldier from proceeding further but the stubborn soldier hit her with his motorcycle, an incident that infuriated the policewoman, who insisted that the motorcycle would be impounded and that the soldier must follow them to the police station.

It was gathered that an army captain who was around intervened but was challenged by the irate policewoman resulting in the soldiers who were at a nearby checkpoint pouncing on the three policewomen.

A source said that the female traffic warden insulted the officer and gripped his shirt, prompting the soldiers who were around to beat them up.

As at the time Vanguard arrived the scene around 4.40 p.m., the policewomen were being mercilessly beaten up by the soliders who threatened to shoot anybody that comes near them.
Some policemen who arrived the scene later wanted to engage the soldiers in a fight but others appealed that they should allow peace to reign.

This led to an agonising traffic jam on the Warri-Sapele road.






MAN SUMTIMES MY PEOPLES BACK HOME ACT REALLY DUMB AND CRAZY

I hope the police find those soldiers responsible and make them pay..or is that just a hopeful wish?

In all actuality the soldiers should face some type of serious court martial or jail time just to prove a point to regular citizens. Their actions have just placed the Nigerian police in jeopardy. Who is now to say that a mob of people will not beat down the police?

My question is did they beat them because they were police or policeWOMEN? IF she had a gun she should have taken them down and pinned down the others until help arrived for her.

If that had happened in the US, me thinks their would have been some dead soldiers lying around the feet of that policewoman LOL