The Imo State Police Command of the Nigeria Police Force has commenced the orderly room trial of the six policemen who were caught on video brutalising and assaulting some students of the Imo State University (IMSU) for allegedly refusing to submit their mobile phones to the officers to be searched. SaharaReporters had reported that some police officers in Owerri, Imo State capital physically assaulted and brutalised some students of the IMSU in their compound for allegedly refusing to submit their mobile phones to the officers to be searched.
April 26, 2023The Imo State Police Command of the Nigeria Police Force has commenced the orderly room trial of the six policemen who were caught on video brutalising and assaulting some students of the Imo State University for allegedly refusing to submit their mobile phones to the officers to be searched.
In a 45-second long footage of the incident, the police officers could be seen dragging and tearing the clothes of the victims while slapping, hitting and cutting them with a machete.It was gathered from the video recorded by some residents of the area that the police officers who operated in a deep red Toyota Sienna minivan stormed the compound where the students live and started brutalising them without explaining what their offences were.
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