Four members of the Aduwawa Markethave been hospitalised after they were beaten up by drivers and traders at the Aduwawa Market.
The Public Works Volunteer (PUWOV) are the group the Edo State Government engaged to restore sanity to motor-parks and ensure traders do not display wares on the walk ways as well as engage in street trading.
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It was gathered that the drivers and traders including passers-by descended on the four PUWOV members by using sticks, stones and wood to beat them.
Eye witnesses said the beatings began after a driver was arrested by for illegally parking on the Bénin-Auchi highway to pick passengers.
The witnesses said all pleas on the PUWOV members to allow the driver go was not heeded which made some drivers to leave their park and attack the PUWOV officials.
Head of PUWOV, Muktari Osagie, explained that his boys were beaten up for arresting a driver picking up passengers indiscriminately.
Muktari said it was a police patrol van that saved his boys from being lynched.
He said seven suspects have been arrested in connection with the attack.
“It would be the grace of God for one of them to walk again. The other one had a hole on his head. We have taken him for scanning.”
State Police Commissioner, Babtunde Kokumo, said the suspects would soon be charged to court.
He expressed worry on why government workers would be attacked with violence.