The Commissioner of Police, Delta State Police Command, Alkali Baba Usman, has disclosed that the policemen and officials attached to a billion van escort that caused the accident that shattered the two legs of a middle aged woman along Udu Road, near Warri, Delta State, have been arrested.
CP Usman made the disclosure while answering questions from newsmen after parading 32 cult members at the Warri Area Commander's Office, saying that he got the wind of the accident and ordered the arrest of members of the team and bank officials that attached to the bullion van.
He said that it's an offence for anyone to drive against traffic irrespective of your position in the society, adding that the policemen would be charged to court after investigation to act as a deterrent to others who are fond of looking for short cut to their destinations.
"It's an offence for anybody to drive against the traffic. The bank officials, policemen that are involved in this act have been arrested and we will charge them appropriately for whatever crime they must have committed against the society."
What could have led to break down of law and order was averted along Udu Road, in Ovwian, Udu Local Government Area of Delta State, on Monday, following a terrible accident which caused a woman believed to be in her 20s to lose her two legs by a tipper forced out of its lane by a speeding speeding bullion van driving against traffic near Warri.
It was gathered that the speeding bullion van which was being escorted by heavily armed policemen forced the tipper to lose control and went directly to crush the lady against the pavement demarcating the road.
The bullion van, eye witnesses says was ruching to an old generation bank along Udu road which is few metres away from the scene of the accident. It was learnt that the accident occurred around 11am while the victim was waiting to cross the road to withdraw money from an Automated Teller Machine, ATM, belonging to the bank.
Pandemonium almost broke out when sympathizers who had earlier helped to rush the victim to hospital came back to the bank premises that the hospital where she has been taken to demanded for a police extract before she could be attended to.
Following the development, aggrieved youths and women besieged the bank demanding that the bank comes to the rescue of the lady whose two legs has been cut off, a situation which forced mobile police attached to the bank to shoot sporadically to scare sympathizers away.
It was further gathered that the victim was left in her pool of her blood for almost an hour before sympathizers came to help.
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