He suffered severe burns and called on the Cross River State Commissioner of Police, Aminu Alhassan to compel the Yakurr Local Government Council Chairman, Ofem Nelson to fish out his attackers.
Narrating his ordeal in a telephone interview with our correspondent on Friday in Calabar, Abang said, “I stopped over in Omilakwa petrol station in Ugep community as I was coming back from Port Harcourt heading towards Ikom LGA and I ran short of petrol.“I heard them say ‘give us your car key,’ probably because they saw two aged women who accosted me as I was trying to buy petrol.
“The task force guys clamped down on me, and began dragging my vehicle keys with me. One of them said ‘hand over your car key to our chairman.’ And I said ‘no’ because they were dressed in mufti. I resisted every attempt to seize the car key from me because I didn’t know who they were coupled with the fact that they had nothing to be identified with as officials of Yakurr Local Government Council.
He added that he was beaten and pinned to the hot bonnet of his car by six able bodied Yakurr Taskforce officials and his back got severely burnt.