I saw him assure a commercial driver that he would have wasted his
life by shooting him dead if it was at night, just because the driver
told him that he does not have money to settle them.
He added
that in Maiduguri, a driver can't waste a policeman's time to begin to
explain that he doesn't have money for settlement; the police will just
shoot the driver dead and throw him in the bush.
He warned the
driver not to say a pleading word again rather than quietly settle them.
One of the passengers who saw how the driver's vehicle has been having
faults while they were coming gave him N30 to give to the policeman and
plead further.
When the driver removed the N30 to give to the
policeman, he asked him how much it was. The driver replied him that
it's N30. The policeman became infuriated and started beating up the
driver with his gun. He said the driver has insulted him by giving him
N30.
His colleagues intervened but could not stop him. They told
this reporter that their superior colleague is drunk and confessed he
has been behaving like that since morning. According to them, they can't
stop him because he is their superior.
I write this to request
the Nigerian Police Force to call Gboko Command to trace this
unprofessional policeman on duty yesterday at Igyula Community along
Gboko-Aliade Road using the attached pictures. Those plying that route
should also take caution in order not to risk their lives.
In
the second picture below with money on ground in front of the policeman,
he was doing so while trying to prove to the driver that he has enough
money and not hungry enough to collect N30 from him"