The Keke Drivers Association and Campaign for
Democracy (CD), South East Zone staged a peaceful protest yesterday in Onitsha.
The group with about 1,000 persons wore all black
attire to express their anger over unlawful and continuous extortion by the
Police.
Some had placards with inscriptions like:
“Police stop molesting us, we are
innocent citizens”, “CP Gwari, where are you, Keke people
are Nigerian citizens, “We need our human rights now, “may God deliver Onitsha
police”, let Onitsha police be overhauled”
Speaking to newsmen, the Chairman of Keke Drivers,
Mr Simon Uchenna said,
“we pay for
environment, we pay for IGR, we pay to Local Government, we pay ticket to the
so called youths and most annoying is that many of us drive the keke on hire
purchase.
I wonder how they want us to survive”.
On his part, Dede
Uzor A. Uzor, the South East Chairman of CD said, “They arrest these people on
daily basis which is a crime against humanity.
Let the authorities
investigate this high rate of crime”
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