{"id":66100,"date":"2025-05-20T12:45:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66100"},"modified":"2025-05-20T12:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T12:45:50","slug":"checkpoint-terror-police-unleash-violence-on-driver-harass-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/20\/checkpoint-terror-police-unleash-violence-on-driver-harass-passengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Checkpoint Terror: Police Unleash Violence on Driver, Harass Passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fear gripped passengers on Monday morning as police officers allegedly unleashed violence on a commercial driver and harassed passengers aboard a Valgee Transport vehicle en route from Abuja to Jos.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which occurred near Mararaba following a blocked section of the road, forced several vehicles to divert.<\/p>\n<p>As the driver of the Valgee bus attempted to park, police operatives allegedly pounced on him without warning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe hadn&#8217;t even parked properly before they began beating him,\u201d a female passenger recounted on X (formerly Twitter), sparking a wave of public outrage.<\/p>\n<p>She further revealed that an officer aggressively approached a female passenger in the front seat, tried to unbuckle her seatbelt, and attempted to slap her-even after she explained she was not the driver.<\/p>\n<p>The situation escalated as a visibly pregnant woman was ignored and shouted at despite pleading for understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey dragged our driver away without a word. Everyone was terrified,\u201d the witness said.<\/p>\n<p>Another passenger, identified only as E.I.E., confirmed the incident, describing it as traumatic. \u201cThis is an outright abuse of power. Authorities must act fast,\u201d she insisted.<\/p>\n<p>As of press time, Valgee Transport had not issued a statement. Efforts to get a response from the FCT Police Command proved abortive.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Nigerians have flooded social media with calls for justice, urging the Inspector General of Police and the Police Service Commission to investigate and discipline those responsible.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 364px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-66100-1\" width=\"364\" height=\"640\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/VID-20250520-WA0021.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/VID-20250520-WA0021.mp4\">https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/VID-20250520-WA0021.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Fear gripped passengers on Monday morning as police officers allegedly unleashed violence on a commercial driver and harassed passengers aboard a Valgee Transport vehicle en route from Abuja to Jos. The incident, which occurred near Mararaba following a blocked section of the road, forced several vehicles to divert. As the driver of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66103,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66100\/revisions\/66103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}