Policemen on duty along the Abuja-Kaduna highway
allegedly killed a commercial driver after he refused to give them N2,000
bribe, NAN quoted a witness as saying.
The yet-to-be-identified driver was shot by a
policeman in the early hours of Friday while on his way to Kaduna state.
Recall we had reported how some drivers blocked
the road to protest the killing.
The highway has been locked down for hours, with
most of the drivers refusing to give way.
NAN quoted the witness as saying one of the
policemen stationed along the road shot the driver after he declined the
request for a bribe.
Another witness identified the late driver’s car
as Peugeot J5. He was said to be conveying rice.
The drivers insisted they would not give way nor
remove the barricades until the Kaduna state governor and the state
commissioner of police address them.
Yakubu Sabo, spokesman of the state police
command, is yet to respond to our inquiry on the matter.
‘BRIBERY ALLEGATION AGAINST THE POLICE’
The extrajudicial killing comes amid the
allegations of corruption and misconduct levelled against the police.
In March, a public survey released by
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) adjudged the police as
the most corrupt institution in Nigeria.
Of the five major public institutions surveyed,
the police had emerged as the most corrupt, with officials of the power sector
identified as the second most corrupt in the country.
“A bribe is paid in 54 percent of interactions
with the police. In fact, there is a 63% probability that an average Nigerian
would be asked to pay a bribe each time he or she interacted with the police.
That is almost two out of three,” Kolawole Oluwadare, SERAP deputy director, had
said in the report.
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