Suspected armed robbers escape from court *after beating prosecutor into a coma*

Is Nigeria simply going from bad to worse or am I the one over-reacting?

Can anyone please explain to me how suspected armed robbers managed to pounce on a prosecutor while they were being arraigned in court, beat him into a stupor and then incredulously went ahead to escape from the court in the prosecutor’s car?

Perhaps, I should share details of the story.

Here:

FIVE suspected robbers, on Tuesday, escaped from the police while being arraigned before Magistrate Court 6, Minna, the Niger State capital, after attacking the police prosecutor attached to the court.

The suspected armed robbers were alleged to have been taken to court in the early hours of the day by prison officers, who allegedly abandoned them to the police prosecutor after which they launched the attack in the bid to evade prosecution.

Nigerian Tribune investigations further revealed that the robbery suspects were said to have descended on the prosecutor, said to be an inspector, inflicting serious injuries on him and rendering him unconscious, snatched his car key and  escaped from the scene in his car.

It was further learnt that the police prosecutor was rushed to an undisclosed hospital in Minna by some concerned members of the public and other sympathisers who came around only after the robbers had escaped from the court premises in a commando-like manner.

Further checks revealed that litigants were also said to have run for dear life, while the robbers’ attack  on the police prosecutor lasted.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Niger State police command, ASP Richard Oguche confirmed the incident, insisting that it was negligence on the part of the prison warders who allegedly abandoned the accused at the court.

In an interview with the Nigerian Tribune, Oguche said “we have the report that about five robbery suspects attacked our prosecutor and escaped while they were in court. This was after beating the prosecutor into coma; they removed his car key and drove away the car to escape,” he said.

He stressed that the command had intensified efforts by spreading its dragnet to re-arrest the fleeing robbery suspects and bring them to book, adding that all officers and men of the command had been alerted to the incident with a view to pinning down the fleeing hoodlums.

The story was culled from NIGERIAN TRIBUNE