The PUNCH had reported that an eyewitness lamented as the policemen brutalised and stripped the lady after she was labelled a cultist.
However, in one of the pictures attached to the story published on Wednesday, the lady was seen sitting on the floor as one of the two policemen attempted to make the arrest.
A rights lawyer and Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law, Monday Ubani, while describing the policemen’s action as barbaric and against the law that established the force, said the policemen committed a criminal assault rather than an arrest. Also commenting on the matter, the legal adviser to the NBA, Oyo State, Oyewale Kehinde, said, “Ordinarily, what the policemen have done is assaul++t. Regardless of the gender of the victim, the law does not recognize gender; it is simply an assault in the Criminal Code, not an arrest.”
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