Residents of Aba have condemned Monday invasion of the police area command by soldiers lamenting that those who ought to unite and tackle the spate of kidnapping and other crimes in the state were involved in a show of shame.
Hell was let loose in Aba, Abia State when soldiers invaded the area command of the police in a Gestapo style and wounded two police officers.
The rampaging soldiers said to be over 50, stormed the police command in an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) and over five Hilux vans, and did not spear civilians within the neighbourhood of the area command headquarters. They were said to have cordoned off the area and forced businesses to close as people around scampered for safety.
In the ensuing fracas, the glass door of a patent medicine shop directly opposite the area command main entrance was shattered as soldiers allegedly stormed the shop to prevent one of the police officers wounded during the fracas from receiving first aid treatment.
Daily Sun gathered that trouble started at about 6.15pm on that day, when a police officer attached to the area command went to purchase some drugs with his pregnant wife, also a serving police officer and parked his car in front of the drugs store but a man who was later identified as an army captain ordered the police officer to remove his vehicle from where it was parked.
The cop was reported to have explained to the soldier that he was a police officer and that he would move as soon as he buys the drugs but the soldier refused and during an argument, the army captain allegedly slapped the policeman and he retaliated.
Other soldiers, who were inside the army van, came down with their guns and threatened to kill the policeman, but for the wife who insisted they should kill her first.
Although passersby, who had gathered to watch the ugly episode, later made peace between the two men, soldiers, who were said to have been alerted by the captain, stormed the police area command.
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