{"id":235123,"date":"2022-12-14T19:17:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=235123"},"modified":"2022-12-14T19:17:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T18:17:13","slug":"policemen-allegedly-beat-truck-driver-to-death-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/12\/14\/policemen-allegedly-beat-truck-driver-to-death-in-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Policemen allegedly beat truck driver to death in Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five policemen have been accused of beating a 40-year-old truck driver, Cosmos Ozioko, to death in Elele in the Obio\/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.<\/p>\n

It was gathered that the policemen on a stop-and-search duty had intercepted a motorcycle, conveying Cosmos and his younger sibling, Kingsley Ozioko, while they were returning to their workplace at about 7:40 pm on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Narrating the incident to PUNCH, Kingsley said their truck was parked near Reliable Farm where they work, saying the cops literally stripped them in the name of searching even when nothing incriminating was found on them.<\/p>\n

Kingsley stated that in the process, his late brother and himself were beaten<\/a> to pulp, while the former passed out and eventually gave up the ghost.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cWe took okada from the CPM roundabout going to Elele. When we got to the checkpoint, there were about five policemen. They started searching all over us. I was the first person that they searched.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey searched everywhere including my private parts, but found nothing. They now searched my brother. They searched our private parts as if they gave us something to hold for them. In the process his phone fell and scattered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continuing, Kingsley said, \u201cMy brother asked them (policemen) to assemble his phone and give it to him. They didn\u2019t answer him. I was the one that picked the mobile telephone and put it the way it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo avoid trouble, I now beckoned my brother for us to leave. As we were leaving my brother asked the okada rider who had been waiting if that was how the policemen were searching everybody that passed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe next thing, two of the policemen<\/a> rushed him, and another one pounced on me. They started beating us, marching us with their boots and using the butt of their guns to hit us.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey ordered us to sit on the ground and asked where we came from. We said Enugu State. \u2018Where in Enugu?\u2019 We replied Nsukka. They said okay this thing you people are doing in the village you have brought it here. One of them used the butt of his gun to hit us, the other two used the boots they were wearing on us.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were beating us until my brother collapsed. I started calling him, brother, brother. People brought pure water sachets which I used on him. He was still breathing then, but weak. So I asked the okada man to buy me milk if it could help.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further said before the okada rider returned, one of the policemen came with some drugs that he bought, adding that, \u201cI asked him who prescribed the drugs?<\/p>\n

\u201cI rushed my brother to a nearby hospital. A nurse there said they didn\u2019t have oxygen, so we should take him to Madona Hospital still in Elele. When we got there, the doctor checked him and told me that my brother was dead.<\/p>\n

\u201cBefore I looked back, I only saw one policeman. The others have disappeared,\u201d he explained while fighting back tears.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want justice for my brother. Let the policemen that killed my brother be arrested and charged to court so that his spirit can rest. My brother cannot die like that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

While noting that the matter was reported to the police in Elele who now transferred it to the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigating Department of the state command, Kingsley said he was still in pain and was taking medication for the beating the cops gave him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It was gathered that the policemen on a stop-and-search duty had intercepted a motorcycle, conveying Cosmos and his younger sibling, Kingsley Ozioko, while they were returning to their workplace 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