Once Again, APC Members, Lawmakers Scale Fence, Over Failure To Pay Civilian JTF @Richard

 

Nigerian politicians seems to have mastered the criminal act of fence scaling, as the Borno State chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Ali Bukar Dalori and some members of the state House of Assembly, who were meeting at one of the government’s lodge in Maiduguri, were forced to scale the perimeter fences for dear life following civilian JTF threatened to deal with them for failing to pay for destruction of President Goodluck Jonathan’s campaign posters. a clash between the police attached to the former as members of the vigilante group.

A sign near a checkpoint of a vigilante group reads Civilian J.T.F or Civilian Joint Task Force in Maiduguri,. Young men and women have in recent weeks formed vigilante groups, hunting down Boko Haram Islamists who have sneaked back into the city following a military offensive on their camps on the Nigerian border with Niger, Chad and Cameroon with remarkable success.

　

Although it was gathered that the incident did not involved any registered member of the Civilian JTF, the political thugs claimed to be members of the group.

The clash, according to investigation, erupted when police attached to the APC Chairman attempted to stop some youths, who claimed that the APC Chairman assigned them to carry out the assignment against PDP, part of which was to remove all PDP billboards, flags in Maiduguri.

The youths said after accomplishing their mission, they ended up disappointed as they were denied payment.

However, the embattled APC Chairman said: “The hired thugs are impatient. When they came demanding to see me, they were told that I was in a meeting. But they were not ready to wait.

“They told the police that they are in a hurry and that it would take nothing for the me to come out and settle them before I go back to continue with my meeting. But you know, the instruction was given to the police and they need to carry it out.”

A Civilian JTF, Mallam Labor Yahaya, confirmed the clash, but said members of his group were not involved in the fracas.

He said: “The thugs, who also carried Dane guns, started the shooting. The police shot one of the rampaging youths in the leg and one of the thugs also shot the policeman in his leg.”