Ebonyi Taskforce members are said to be on the run after attacking and injuring a soldier at International Market located in Abakaliki, the state capital.
Our correspondent gathered that the ugly incident happened on Wednesday around 10am at Lot 2.
Speaking with our correspondent, the soldier who identified himself as Nwuzor Elias said trouble started when he refused to pay 5000 Naira demanded from him by the Taskforce Members.
According to him, “ticket people just attacked me at International Market because I refused to give them 5,000 naira which they claimed it is for loading and offloading.”
“I told them that I’m not carrying anything and I’m not coming to carry anything that I’m only here to buy something and secondly I identified myself as a soldier to them”.
“They said nothing concerned with a soldier that I should go to Port Harcourt and continue with my soldier work that they are also a Biafran soldier and also a member of IPOB”.
“Before I know what’s going on, they attacked me, injured me and I am presently at a hospital in Abakaliki”.
“Before going to the Hospital, I went to the Barack and I reported my case and they wanted to arrest all of them but they have ran away because they heard about their coming including their cso”, he said.
As at the time of filing this report, efforts to speak to government officials proved abortive.
