The incident happened at 7.45 am at a military checkpoint on Jakpa Junction, causing an irate mob to set a military vehicle ablaze.
The soldiers on duty at the checkpoint fled the scene soon after they observed that the woman, who initially slumped, had died.
As at the time of this report, there was tension in the area, while the police have deployed men to maintain peace.
A source said the soldiers stopped the woman and the tricycle rider conveying her at the checkpoint for purportedly violating the no movement order during today’s Environmental Sanitation in the state.
The woman pleaded with the soldiers that she was rushing to attend a marriage ceremony, but when the soldiers refused all entreaties, the tricycle rider suspecting riskily escaped. His bold getaway incensed one of the soldiers, who visited her anger on the woman by wrathfully hitting her stomach with the bayonet of his gun, ripping her stomach in the process.
She slumped immediately and died on the spot. “Angry youths set ablaze the patrol van of the soldiers, who took to their heels as soon as they observed that the woman was dead,” an eyewitness told reporters. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Nigerian Soldiers are becoming as useless and unlawful as the Nigerian police.It is a shame that government at all level in this country is irresponsible. What we are experiencing here is not CHANGE as they call it but i call it UNTRANSFORMED TRANSFORMATION lead by UNCORDINATED CORDINATOR(S).
ReplyDeleteWas it the woman that was driving the tricycle? Can't the tricycle be cornered and the culprits just arrested and detained for prosecution? How can you hit a pregnant woman with the bayonet of a gun, even with such force to pierce her stomach? This is just plain madness and recklessness. So why did they run afterwards, since they were soldiers who could just commit worse crime than the culprits they're chasing and go free. They would have stayed to meet the wrath of the mob. Just plain cowardice. Easily beat up unarmed civilians, but dodge the well armed bandits.
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