The Rivers State senator who was reportedly shot with a rubber bullet and teargas cannisters yesterday by the Nigerian police in the state is on his way to London for further treatment according to sources in the state.
Senator Magnus Abe was hospitalized yesterday when policemen disrupting a peaceful rally organized by the opposition members in state shot at him with teargas and rubber bullets.
His doctor claimed that the senator’s chest was hit with an object that might have caused internal bleeding therefore necessitating his transfer to the UK for better medical care.
The police in the state however denied that its members shot the Senator, they said instead, that minimum force was applied in dispersing rally goers at the state’s College of Arts and Sciences because they did not obtain police permit before the gathering. More pics after the cut:
via 247naijagossip
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