A resident of Delta State, Dickson Abadoni, has lamented how officers of the Nigeria Police Force, Delta State Command, physically assaulted him and broke his hand while trying to settle an accident case. Abadoni, who said he works as a security officer for Julius Berger Nigeria Plc (JBN), covering the access road linking the 2nd Niger Bridge to the existing road, told SaharaReporters that he was brutalised while trying to settle an accident matter between his organisation’s driver and a commercial motorcyclist near the C Division.
How Nigerian Policemen Led By Divisional Officer In Delta Brutalised Man At Accident Scene, Broke His HandAbadoni explained that on the said day, an accident occurred when a Julius Berger Nigeria Plc Toyota Hilux and a commercial motorcyclist heading towards the Niger Bridge collided with each other.
SaharaReporters learnt that the policemen were attached to the C Division, along Asaba/Onitsha Expressway in Oshimili South Local Government Area of the State and the incident happened on Monday, April 24, 2023. “I quickly snapped the vehicle and asked the driver to leave the road to allow free flow of the traffic while waiting for JBN's internal traffic unit to come and report the issue officially to the police at C Division after the motorcyclist who sustained some degrees of injury has been rushed to a nearby hospital on the bike due to the heavy vehicular traffic,” he said.
“Before I knew what was happening, they all pounced on me, saying that I was disobeying their Divisional Officer, DPO's order and over seven of them including the DTO started hitting me with their wooden baton and other objects which resulted to the fracture of the mid-shaft of the proximal phalanx of the 5th digit finger of my right hand.”
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