Three policemen on Sunday night assaulted a Punch photojournalist, Sam Adeko, in Abuja for obeying traffic light.
Adeko, who was driving a Honda Accord car, had stopped for the red light opposite Unity Bank headquarters along Herbert Macaulay Way, Central Business District, Abuja, when three policemen in a pick-up van, marked E-5, assaulted him for observing traffic rule.
The policemen, who were attached to Total Nigeria Plc Headquarters, stopped their vehicle sharply beside him and one of them hit him with his rifle and threatened to shoot him for not disregarding traffic light because the road was free.
Adeko said, “The red light countdown was on 11 seconds when the police van stopped beside me and three armed policemen jumped down. One of them slapped me and shoved his rifle to my neck, saying why did I stop for the red light when the road was free.”
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