hospital in Rivers state after some trigger-happy
police officers shot him on the chest and leg twice
during a rally.
The doctors said the Senator is yet to utter a word
following the police brutality.
According to witnesses, Abe, who is the Chairman of
the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Down Stream)
was attacked at the Rivers State College of Arts and
Science, venue of the rally organised by Save Rivers
Movement, SRM, a group loyal believed be loyal to
the Rivers State Governor, Hon. Rotimi Amaechi.
Magnus Abe, the former Secretary to the State
Government, was said to have gone to the. College of
Arts and Science off, Rumuola road,Port Harcourt, see
to final arrangements for the rally which was another
in a series of others billed for the 23 local
Government areas of the state.
The Men of the Rivers Police Command had arrived
the venue as early as 7 a.m and taken strategic
positions around the rally venue and blocked the
ever busy dualized Rumuola road refusing access to
the venue.
The Senator was said to have been hit twice in the
chest and leg by some rubber bullets fired by some
trigger-happy police men, who confronted the
lawmaker as he was about to enter the venue of the
rally.
The Chief of Staff to the Rivers State Governor, Tony
Okocha was said to have been lucky to escape by the
whiskers.One report said he was shot in the leg.
The Senator was rushed immediately to a private
hospital, Krisany Medical Services, located at the
Agudama area of Port Harcourt, where he was
attended to by a team of medical personnel, headed
by Dr. Mackay Anyanwu.
Dr. Anyanwu, who spoke on the Senator's state,
explained that the Senator was suffering from severe
blood shock.
Dr. Mackay explains; ''The patient( Abe) was brought
in a state of a shock, as evidenced by low blood
pressure. He was restless and he couldn't
communicate or reason coherently.''
'' As a first aid, we treated him for traumatic shock,
because the implication of his state was that there
was severe blood trauma and the amount of layers
affected could not be detected immediately. This can
only be done through the hemorrhoid tests.''
Dr Anyanwu continues; ''We have administered
Oxygen treatment on him for resuscitation and
primary medication, but we also detected severe
internal bleeding and high level haemorrhaging in
him. Another bad news is that we also detected that
the affected side is showing severe swelling, which
led me to the conclusion that he must have been hit
by a high caliber weapon and my fears were
confirmed when I was told that he was shot with a
rubber bullet.'
Another sad case of police brutality.
Wishing him quick recovery.
Sent From David Aniemeka
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