Protest turns bloody as police shoot Imo doctor

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A peaceful protest by members of the Imo State chapter of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) came to an abrupt end yesterday when policemen shot into their midst. 

The doctors had embarked on a protest to the Government House to lodge their grievances against government over alleged impunity in the health sector until they were forcibly dispersed by the police.
The doctors, accompanied by policemen, had marched peacefully until they got to the Warehouse Junction. But without warning, policemen, who formed a barricade ahead, fired canisters of teargas at the doctors, forcing them to retreat. Dr. Bede Azudialo, a consultant family physician, was shot in the head.
He was immediately rushed to an undisclosed hospital. But the Deputy Commissioner of Police, Dave Akinremi, denied the attack. The police chief said the protest might have been infiltrated by hoodlums. He said: “The doctors applied to the police but they said their protest would terminate at Freedom Square.