After a brief lull, rogue police officers are back to their notorious ways of arbitrary arrests, extortion and extrajudicial killings
MISCONDUCT by Nigeria Police personnel is back in the spotlight. Apart from the swirling protests on the premature death of singer, Ilerioluwa ‘MohBad’ Aloba, 27, in controversial circumstances, two other recent incidents of police brutality in Rivers and Lagos states are fuelling public ire.
Protests broke out after allegations surfaced on social media that the police treated a petition alleging that another singer and record label owner, Azeez Fashola, aka ‘Naira Marley,’ and his associate, Samson ‘Sam Larry’ Balogun, had been threatening Aloba and destroyed his movie production in June, with levity. In their defence, police said they invited Aloba, but he did not turn up.
The MohBad case is not isolated. Rogue police officers, allegedly hired by a private citizen, invaded a shop in Lekki on September 19 and beat up an attendant, jumped on her and almost stripped her naked, over a transaction dispute. Illogically, police have reportedly turned round to accuse the victim of attacking officers!
It seems the police have learnt no lesson from the #EndSARS protests, sparked largely by the extortion, torture and killing of youths. In a viral video posted on September 1 from Port Harcourt, Rivers State, a woman identified simply as ‘Jennifer,’ accused police officers of brutalising her sister. Last April, Police HQs in Abuja summoned four officers who assaulted a man over a minor traffic dispute in the same city.
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