The police officers who
drove on one way and knocked down a University of Port Harcourt Mechanical
Engineering student Edah Oghenekevwe Richard have been identified and arrested
by the Rivers state Police command.
According to an eyes
witnesses on the day of the tragic incident "The police van after hitting
the boy, tried to drive off but were stopped by onlookers at the junction and
eyewitnesses who demanded that the victim be taken to the hospital.
The police agreed and took
him to the University of Portharcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), but on reaching
there, they allegedly told the attending nurses that they just picked him while
they were driving along NNPC Filling station at Rumuosi and they weren't aware
of what had happened to him."
"It was one of the
nurses in the hospital that took down the details of one of the policemen
involved. When called by the family members of the boy, the policeman denied it
in it's entirety. The police up till now are still denying the incident despite
the several onlookers and eyewitnesses that were at the scene of the
accident." he added
Meanwhile, the state
police command is conducting further investigation into the matter and if the
officers are found guilty, they will be taken to court.
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