A Nigerian lady and Instagram user identified as Lucee
Ogechi Akaedu, has recounted how a police man allegedly punched a lady for
stopping him from assaulting a pregnant woman in Lagos state.
As stated by the lady, the police officers attempted to apprehend
an alleged internet fraudster and they tried force him into their vehicle.
Then, a lady brought out her phone to film the incident and
the policemen allegedly tried to assault her but was blocked by another lady
who stated that the woman recording the incident was pregnant.
The police officers then turned and punched the lady who attempted
stopping them several times, and left her with horrific injuries.
She wrote;
“So I got a report from one of my models (an alumni of Face
Of Ajegunle 2015) on Saturday 6th of June, around 10pm asking me to help her
repost her status and help her get justice for her mum.
I wasn’t able to check immediately because I was so busy
with my other businesses online!
I was keen to know exactly what transpired and she sent me a
voice note of the incident. Some people were having a party around that area on
that faithful Saturday, police people were alerted and when they came to the
scene of the party, instead of them to focus on those breaking the law by
having a party this period, they started harassing both passerby.
It all started when they stopped a footballer driving in his
car and were forcing him to come down from his car so they can arrest him and
were already labeling him a yahoo boy! When he refused and was arguing with
them, one of the policemen hit him with a gun on his head and they started to
rough handle him, while on that, the woman who owns the shop where my model’s
mum was making her nails started to record the scene and one of the policemen
rushed to collect the phone from her and started to beat her up, pushed her to
the mud even when they clearly saw that she was pregnant, so my model’s mum on
seeing what they were doing to her friend started shouting and saying that they
should leave the pregnant woman alone o, that can’t they see that she is
pregnant and the policeman turned to her and gave her a blow on her mouth,
punched her several times to a point she couldn’t recognize herself anymore!
I immediately sent the report to our national youth council
chairman, Ajif chapter and also sent to Community Watch Plus group on WhatsApp
to seek justice and then i got a lot of people working their ass out to help us
get justice, the DPO of that division was alerted and immediately added to the
community watch plus WhatsApp group, I narrated the story by sending the voice
note and pictures of the incident again and he assured us that they have
already started querying the men in question.
He even went as far as visiting the family of the woman they
brutalized and told me that they are making sure justice is served and they
want peace to reign.
But most people in the group where I posted didn’t want it
to just lay low like that because if proper justice and lessons isn’t served,
we might encounter such happenings again in future.
To cut the long story short.
I got a call this morning from the youth chairman that I
should make my way down to Area Command in Apapa by 10am, as that’s where the
disciplinary action of those policemen will take place, that even though they
tried settling the issue within the Tolu post division but the matter has gone
out of hand because a lot of people contacted the IG and because I was the one
who first alerted them, that I should come witness what the disciplinary
actions on those guys will be.
I will be back to give us further details of what
punishments was given to the policemen.”
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