BRUTALITY: Police Hit Pregnant Woman With Gun Over N50 Bribe

The commercial tricycle operators in Bayelsa State, popularly known as Keke NAPEP, yesterday, staged a protest against what they alleged as the excessive use of force and extortion by policemen along the streets and highways in the state.The protest began after a policeman allegedly hit a pregnant woman with a gun over a N50 bribe.
The police inspector, whose identity is still unknown, was reported to have used the butt of his rifle to strike the pregnant woman while trying to beat the Keke NAPEP driver, who had refused to part with a N50 bribe.While some senior officials of the Azikoro Divisional Police Headquarters described the action of the police inspector as “careless” and denied the alleged use of the butt of rifle, the protesters claimed the action of the police led to excessive bleeding of the pregnant woman from the mouth.The pregnant woman, according to the protesters, has been rushed to a private hospital for treatment.LEADERSHIP gathered that attempts by the protesters to barricade the premises of the Nigerian Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) along the Azikoro road were thwarted by armed policemen, who shot tear gas into the crowd.