policeman kills bus driver over N20 bribe

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In Onitsha, Anambra State, when a commercial bus driver was shot and killed by a policeman over his alleged refusal to pay the some of  N20 bribe.
Trouble started when the driver escaped from a police check-point at Dennis Memorial Grammar School  junction in the commercial city. The deceased was said to be a member of the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra

The killer police was said to be a non-native, a development that enraged the residents. The suspect, it was learnt, has been arrested
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Security agencies also prevented a spill-over of the crisis to nearby Asaba in Delta State, where non-natives in the town ran for fear of being attacked by the mob.
Ekwueme said: “The policeman stopped my oga at the junction, demanding for N20 bribe and he beat the check-point. But as we were going down to Ose main market, he noticed that the policeman rode on a commercial motorcycle and followed us. When he (the deceased) noticed that the policeman was chasing us, he tried to follow the one-way through New Market Road, but the same policeman followed us and shot at the tyres of the vehicle and we were forced to stop. Then, he came to the door and shot Edwin at a close range in the neck