Africa Press-Nigeria:
Some officers of the Nigerian Air Force have allegedly assaulted a medical doctor on her way to resume duty at a hospital in Rivers State.
The incident was said to have happened on May 18 along Ohiamini-Psychiatric Road, off Rumuola, Port Harcourt, the state capital, about 5pm.
The victim, Dr Otoide A.O., said she was going to cover a night shift when she “saw a light blue Hilux with military personnel and a light blue luxury bus behind it”.
She said she had her Medical ID cards on and a pass issued by the Attorney General of the state for essential workers to be exempted from the lockdown in parts of the state occasioned by COVID-19.
“As they got closer to me, one of the two armed men behind the Hilux jumped down, pointing his weapon at me, he shouted ‘Stop there!’ I told him you don’t need to point your weapon at me, just ask me who I am.
“He asked ‘Who are you?’ I said I was a medical doctor but just as the words left my lips before I could pull out my ID cards, he landed a heavy slap on my left cheek.
“I was dazed for a moment and I heard him say, ‘Are you the first doctor?’” Otoide narrated via Twitter.
She said the other officers came down when jolted by the sound of the slap only to blame her for being rude to their colleague.
According to her, they later got into their vehicles while she brought out her phone to capture them.
