Police Officer Attacks Motorist For Not Allowing Him Overtake On The Highway
Police Officer Attacks Motorist For Not Allowing Him Overtake On The Highway
An unidentified police officer has allegedly attacked a motorist, Ella John Elaigwu for not allowing a police vehicle overtake him on the highway.
Eliagwu told Daily Post on Thursday that the the vehicle, with plate number, police PF 1813 – SPY, tried to overtake him on the road on his way back to Abuja after the Easter celebration.
The incident reportedly occurred near Goshen City, Living Faith Church in Abuja.
He explained that he was attacked because he refused to give way for the police vehicle to pass.
Elaigwu said the officer, who was sighted in the viral video, broke his car bumper, destroyed his expensive cell phone and threatened to gun him down.
He said, “I was driving along Abuja-Keffi Expressway; the police vehicle was behind me blowing sirens but I couldn’t give him chance immediately as it was tight but immediately there was space, I applied break for him to pass, only for him to overtake me and began to push towards me, till he hit my bumper and I swerved out of the road and parked.
“It would have been a fatal accident; I didn’t make any attempt to follow him, but other people who saw what he did tried to help and stop him; I tried to ask why he almost made us have accident and the man went inside the car, brought out his gun”.
When the publication contacted the FCT command, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Josephine Adeh, stated that the officer’s action was unacceptable but it would be hard to identify him because he was not in uniform.