There was a clash at the entrance
gate at the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) between an army officer
and a woman, Mrs Joy Agboghide.
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.
Nigerian Tribune
Nawao I don't knw who to blame here but beating up the woman is what i don't support.
ReplyDeleteNawao I don't knw who to blame here but beating up the woman is what i don't support.
ReplyDeleteNawa!
ReplyDeleteThree men beating on one woman? Even one man is too many.
ReplyDeleteI do not support beating a woman at all but the woman showed her nasty character outside her house. Character can't be hidden. A well mannered woman won't behave the way she did publicly. What's so difficult in bn patient and allowing free flow of traffic?
ReplyDeleteI do not support beating a woman at all but the woman showed her nasty character outside her house. Character can't be hidden. A well mannered woman won't behave the way she did publicly. What's so difficult in bn patient and allowing free flow of traffic?
ReplyDeleteThis case never end here, Benin women no dey take Nonsense... Major be ready ooo
ReplyDeleteShe can't do more than a dead rat. I bet that useless woman has no respect for her husband.
DeleteAnd u av no respect for women, by calling a woman a dead rat, dint u read the article that both the officer and his wife also beat her?... so put ur money were ur mouth is... #pEaCeOuT
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