A report has claimed that wife of Abia State House of Assembly Speaker, Chikwendu Kalu, ordered his husband’s security details to shoot officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) after the traffic officers flagged down the car she was in over failure to use seat-belt on Saturday, in Abia State.
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The incident occurred at Umuikea Junction in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area.
And according to News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, it gathered from an eyewitness that an FRSC patrol team had flagged down the vehicle conveying the government official’s wife for seat-belt violation.
“The lady was in her vehicle with two other females and none of them was wearing their seatbelts.
“As the road safety officers were talking to them about it, they flared up and started assaulting the officers.
“The big man’s wife called her husband’s security aides, who rushed to the scene and started shooting sporadically.
“In the process, one of the FRSC officers was hit in the arm, and the other in neck and waists,” NAN quoted the eyewitness as saying.
The Public Education Officer of the Corps, Mr Bisi Kazeem reportedly confirmed the shooting to NAN.
