'Call these men to order,' a human rights activist said to police authorities in Nigeria.
on Friday over alleged assault of a traveller by some unidentified police officers in the state.
Mr Gwamnishu said the traveller, simply identified as Jennifer, was allegedly beaten by the officers who were on a stop-and- search operation around Ada George, Port Harcourt, on Thursday.“Please investigate this and call these men to order. Thank you,” he appealed to the police authorities in Nigeria.In the one minute, three seconds clip, which has now gone viral, a woman is heard shouting at some armed officers along a highway, accusing them of inflicting injury on her sister.
“Policemen give my sister beta injury and you are here making a video of me. After giving my sister an injury. Did you see anything in my sister’s bag? Never,” she said. The sister, understood to be Jennifer, was bleeding on her lips. She was seen inside a Toyota Corolla car struggling to clean herself up.Two unidentified persons, believed to be co-travellers, were seen discussing with some of the officers.on Saturday, said their attention had been drawn to the viral clip of the officers accused of assaulting the lady.
“…The command wishes to inform the general public that all hands are on deck to identify the police officers in the trending video for proper investigation,” the police wrote on the microblogging site.
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