According to eyewitnesses, the fight between the army officer, a
major, and Mrs Agboghide, was caused by traffic situation in front of the BEDC
office due to traffic congestion and indiscriminate parking of vehicles in the
area.
It was learnt that the woman, who was driving from the Forestry
Road axis, was asked to allow vehicles coming from the off Akpakpava axis pass
and after allowing about five vehicles pass she insisted on passing thereby
obstructing traffic.
Eyewitnesses also said that trouble started when the major, who
had just left the BEDC office, accosted Mrs Agboghide and asked her to reverse
her vehicle so as to allow vehicles coming in the opposite direction pass.
It was learnt that the woman declined, leading into fight between
the trio of the woman, the major and his wife.In the melee that followed, it
was learnt that teargas cannister was used on the woman, while she retaliated
by damaging the army officer's car.
The army officer was said to have retaliated by inviting two army
officers within the vicinity, who joined him to beat up Mrs Agboghide to a pulp
and damaged her car including the wind screen and the rear screen that were
shattered.
Security was beefed up in the area as members of the civil society
group and family members besieged the BEDC office, alleging complicity of BEDC
in the beating up of the woman.
It was learnt that Mrs Agboghide was later taken to hospital after
she first reported at a police station.
A member of the civil society, Kola Edokpaye, alleged that the
army officer called upon by the major were those attached to the BEDC, giving
the name of one of them as Daniel.
Sources within the BEDC, however, said that the company was not in
any way connected to the fiasco, adding that attempts were being made to
unravel the identity of the army officer as he did not write his name in any
register before he departed the BEDC.
Culled from Nigerian Tribune
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