COVID-19 lockdown: NSCDC official allegedly guns down commercial driver in Abia
youths in the area took to the road to protest the alleged killing of a commercial driver by an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps , Isiala Ngwa Division.
According to an eyewitness, “the driver carrying tomatoes among other food items approached the Civil Defence checkpoint where they were enforcing the order of the governor on COVID-19 after they flagged him down. “When the temper was high, we left and were watching the drama from afar. The driver tried driving off and the next thing we heard was a gunshot. We all ran away and by the time we came back, we saw the driver in the pool of his blood.”
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