How policemen assaulted me over N100 extortion – Rivers driver

Friday, a father of four, told our reporter on Thursday that the police officers attacked him, broke his car’s side mirror and threatened to shoot him along the NTA area of Ozuoba in the Obio/Akpor LGA, just when he was about to close operations on Wednesday. The taxi driver also said at one point the officers threatened to shoot him and called on the police authorities to caution their men on stop and search duties. The distraught driver said he had three stranded passengers whom he assisted from the Obiri-Kwere area to Ozuoba when he encountered the policemen at about 7pm on Wednesday. A taxi driver identified as Umo Friday has accused some policemen at the Choba Division in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State of assaulting him after he refused them from extorting N100 from him. Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police, had yet to reply to a text message sent to her as of the time of filing this report.