
Protest sparked off in
Onitsha, the commercial city of Anambra
State Thursday, over the killing of a
commercial bus driver simply identified as
Edwin by a trigger happy policeman for failing to part with N50 tip. According to the conductor of the bus, Samuel
Ekwueme who was crying uncontrollably, the
police, at Anambra State Broadcasting Service
(ABS) Awka Road Onitsha junction check point,
had stopped the Coaster bus driver with
registration number AA 763 AHB and asked for N50 tip, but the driver gave him the normal
N20. The policeman said to be a Hausa man refused
and insisted on collecting N50, but was told by
the driver that they just came out and that
they should allow them to go and come back. The conductor said: “The policemen insisted
that we must give them N50 before we move.
The driver, after pleading with the unyielding
policemen, drove off and one of them entered
a commercial motorcycle and accosted us at
Anionwu street by New Market Road Onitsha where he shot the driver through the bus window and