Police officer goes berserk, shoots, beats colleagues’ wives in Abia

Tragedy was averted on Saturday at Aba Central Police Station, Aba, Abia State, when an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ran amok and started firing sporadically and assaulting wives of other policemen in the area.

Vanguard gathered that the incident began at about 7 pm when the policeman, identified as Henry, started assaulting women, children and shop owners near the station.

Eyewitnesses told Vanguard that the policeman fired several shots in the air, and battered people including wives of fellow police officers who own shops at the gate of the station.

One of the women who sell roasted chicken, yams and plantains had all her goods thrown into the gutter by the policeman, who also destroyed her kiosk and beat her up.  The situation caused panic in the area, even as people who sustained injuries were taken to the Aba General Hospital, near the station.

While being led into the station, the ASP was said to have caused another scare when he grabbed an AK-47 rifle held by one of the Mobile Police officers who held him. It took the intervention of other mobile policemen who beat him hard on his arm before he left the gun as they bundled him into the police station. Punch