By Egufe Yafugborhi
On a day the world marked the 2020 World Human Rights Day, the atmosphere in Port Harcourt, Rivers State capital, was so irreconcilable with the spirit of the day.
That fateful Thursday, in Rukpokwu, Obio Akpor Local Government Area (LGA), an edgy Police Inspector shot dead a tricycle driver, Chukwuma Ikechi, aka School Boy, at dawn over alleged failure to yield to N100 checkpoint extortion.
In the collateral damage trailing the brutal murder, two more persons were feared dead as police bullets flew in desperate repelling of an angry mob’s attempt to burn down the Rumuokoro Police Station under whose jurisdiction the trigger happy Inspector shot School Boy.