[size=15pt]Policeman shoot protesting military pensioners in Ibadan
Written by Ola Ajayi
Tuesday, 01 July 2008 [/size]


THE problems of military pensioners who trooped the major streets in Ibadan were compounded yesterday as a man who claimed to be a policeman from Asaba, Delta State, reportedly shot one of them during protest.
The no fewer than 200 pensioners had, in the early hours of yesterday, trooped to the streets in the Dugbe area to protest non-payment of their 13 months arrears by the Federal Government.
They had blocked the roads leading to the popular commercial area hindering the free flow of vehicular and human traffic.


But about 11 a.m, a gun-totting man, who was apparently hindered by the protesting pensioners, in annoyance fired warning shots into the air to scare them.


The shots, however, did not scare the ex-militarymen who refused to remove the barricade off the road.
According to a witness, when the pensioners refused to leave the roads, the man who was in company of other five people, shot at them during which the bullets reportedly hit one of the pensioners.


After the shooting they attempted to flee the scene but the pensioners pursued them. They succeeded in getting three of them and beat them to a pulp. The melee caused the traders in the market to close their shops and run for dear lives.

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