Mogadishu (PP Information Desk) — Earlier in the present day within the Hamarweyne district of Mogadishu, a visitors police officer shot a tuktuk driver for refusing to switch $5 into the officer’s cellular cash account. “I’m a tuktuk driver, and I’m right here with my fellow tuktuk drivers to not show or trigger disturbances. We’re sending our condolences to the household of a tuktuk driver who has misplaced a member of the family and had one other injured. The President, Prime Minister and the Mayor of Mogadishu stay detached to our plight. Yearly, troopers kill tuktuk drivers, however nobody holds them accountable for the crimes they commit,” mentioned Hassan, one of many tuktuk drivers who spoke to a Kaab TV reporter.
Hassan defined that the incident started when a visitors police officer requested the tuktuk driver to provide a driving licence. “The tuktuk driver mentioned, ‘I don’t have it with me now.’ Then the visitors police officer demanded a $5 bribe to be wired into his [EVC] account. When the motive force mentioned he didn’t have $5, the officer killed him,” Hassan added.
Tuktuk drivers in Mogadishu ceaselessly complain about paying taxes however receiving no safety from extortion by visitors law enforcement officials. The visitors police officer who killed the tuktuk driver fled the scene.
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