Resource control: SSS men clamp traffic officials in detention for towing their vehicle in Delta

State-Security-Service

by Isi Esene

Officials of the State Security Security (SSS) in Delta state yesterday manhandled four members of the state traffic control task force after allegedly contravening traffic regulation at the Government House Road, Asaba.

The SSS men were said to have bundled the victims into detention but later released and took them to a medical facility for them to receive needed medical attention.

According to reports, the traffic officers had stopped a vehicle driving against traffic and seized his ignition key in a bid to tow his vehicle to the ministry of transport office.

The alleged traffic violator, who had earlier introduced himself as an SSS official quickly mobilised support from the command headquarters and trailed the task force officials to Macdons on Okpanam Road in a bid to retrieve the ignition key.

An eyewitness said the SSS officials shot sporadically into the air and allegedly attacked the task force officials with their guns.

“They actually brutalised the boys after shooting into the air sporadically. They hit them with the guns and harassed them before taking them away,” the eyewitness said.

Other members of the traffic task-force later gathered in front of the SSS office to demand the unconditional release of their colleagues

While the boys were allegedly bundled into detention at the SSS headquarters, other members of the task force in solidarity with their members stormed the SSS office to demand the unconditional release of their colleagues but the situation was later brought under control when the Commissioner for Transport, Ben Igbakpa arrived the scene.

Igbakpa later told reporters that the matter has been conclusively resolved.

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