
A Gospel artiste, Sunny Blu Opukiri has revealed how he was maltreated by policemen who labelled him an armed robber because he spoke against them for allegedly brutalising a Keke rider in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state.
Read what he shared below;
While waiting for my supply vehicle, I saw a tricycle rider park neatly just after the bank, trying to negotiate with his passenger and give him change, we saw a police van appear, officers came out and entered the tricycle giving the charge that the rider blocked the road leading to the entrance of someone's compound.
lol, it was funny at first because we( I and some other observers at the ATM machine) were wandering how the neatly parked tricycle was blocking the road and if the owner of the driveway told them to stop people from parking close to his driveway, where there was no sign saying no parking, we were just watching and after the tricycle guy refused to come to terms and settle them, the argument escalated and the tricycle rider refused to let them take his Keke away cause his papers were complete and he was parked properly the next thing we saw was a police man using his rifle to hit the rider severally and the rider kept on dodging the gun, at that point I went a bit closer and asked them to stop, telling them that we all saw what happened and the Keke rider didn't do anything to deserve being beat up with a gun...
However, they took the Keke and the rider away with them, no one knows what has become his story now. So I ask,
When will doing the right thing be easy in our society?
who will risk the troubles to speak out and be the scape goat?
Why should we keep living in fear? When will the police be our friends for real?
To protect life and property and not to scare our lives with their guns and extort us ?
If a bullet accidentally released and someone died, the story would have been he didn't mind his business. But am glad I spoke out, but my voice alone can't be loud enough, join your voices with mine let's make a firm statement till the right authorities do something,
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