Three persons sustained injuries on Thursday, as hoodlums reportedly attacked security operatives attached to the taskforce on illegal motor parks and street trading in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Coordinator of the taskforce, DSP Felix Nwadibeyi (rtd.), who confirmed the incident, said that it occurred at Slaughter-Oginigba market, Trans Amadi in Obio/Apkor Local Government Area of Rivers.
He explained that members of the task force were at the area to enforce the ban when the hoodlums attacked them with stones, guns, machetes and other dangerous weapons.
“I led the team to Trans Amadi, precisely Slaughter area, where lots of street trading were taking place.
“The traders, on sighting us, started throwing stones at us. As a result, my boys tried to resist them. We also had some armed policemen who shot in the air to scare them.
“Suddenly, they came after us with rifles, machetes and other weapons. This scared our boys who ran away from the scene,” he said.
Nwadibeyi further said that three task force members, one policeman and two boys, “are lying critically at a hospital with their fate still hanging in the balance”.
