‘’I was ordered to pay the some of two
hundred naira by one individual in the process of trying to park my vehicle in
a particular location with having some meters set back from the Nigeria
police post to which I questioned. Thereafter, I was badly beaten in an
unwholesome manner by men of the Nigeria police’’. This was contained in a
press release by Mr. Adeoye Thomas, market trader, who told some selected
journalist his ordeal with a policeman in mufti in the process of trying to
park his vehicle and where he was accosted and asked to pay a likely some to
which he queried its legality in the first place, and where fracas ensued there
after.
Narrating his ordeal, Adeoye said he came in
company of two of his colleagues to super international mechanic spare
part in katangua market in Oke Odo with adjoining Abule egba
to buy some spare in other for him to have his vehicle fixed, it
was in that process he was instructed to pay the likely some by one individual.
But after he discover he was not going to head to that instruction, the man,
according to Adeoye on sighting his telephone on the dash board, quickly
penetrated the other side of the window, just for him to have the possession of
his phone with-which, it was rebuffed at that process and where its
sparks up provocation on the part of the man and who eventually came
closer toward the direction of drivers sit where he Adeoye was trying to
control the vehicle and carve out a good position for it to be in an
appropriate position and what, according to him, he saw next, was that the said man had
tear gas his face. This, according to Adeoye was what made him lose his sight
at that moment and where also he discovered that the man doing all this was
actually a police man.
Adeoye
said he could no longer sight anything at that moment and this was how the
police man called on one corporal
Babangida to come for reinforcement and were able to over power him, hurl all
kind of planks on them. He said when all these was going on, people where
gathered around us at the scene pleading, and from what he could hear
from every of there discussion, it was one sergeant odeigha every of the
pointer was directed to and that which made him understand it was
actually the man in question, requesting for such money by force. Although he
admitted that it was in the time when sergeant odeigha was trying to pick his
phone unjustly, and where he was trying to outsmart him in the process
before ‘’he Adeoye mistakenly heat him on his eyes , according to him
was the more reason he was being dragged on the floor. Here him’ I could not
sight anything there after, but I can hear every of their conversation and was
able to understand all of what was said since it was the sergeant odeigha that
held me on my wrist’’. Adeoye yelled’’ is this the way and manner our police
should handle us in this country just for wanting to extort money from me by
force? He queried.
Mr.
Olabode, a former chairman of the market also told trumpet online reporter that
what happened in the scenario was pathetic and that he actually came in the
aftermath of all, and where he discovered that the man , Mr. Adeoye was
still held in there with broods all around him and that what he could do to
salvage that situation at that time was for him to call the officer in charge
of that police post, Asp Ogbonnaiya, according to he him, he said ‘’you know it
was on a weekend that this happened, you cant expect their superior to be there
but when a call was put through to her phone she responded and acted promptly
that was when he Adeoye was released.
But in a swift reaction via phone conversation,
the divisional police officer, Mr. Michael Obete told this reporter that it was
true that the matter was brought to him and after which he directed that
sergeant odeigha be incarcerated, according to him, he said it was after the
events also that another pointer was brought to his notice that sergeant
odeigha had brudes on his face to which he directed that he should be released
on that not for further treatment. When asked if the allegation of
wanting to extort money was what brought all that transpired , he said from the
account that was given, there was no such traces of such transaction but what
was at his disposal as we speak was that its a case of stop and search where he
sergeant odeigha narrated that it was when he Mr. Adeoye was trying to prove
otherwise was the reason larger proportion of the market traders had to come to
the rescue and in the process, he was beaten up. Although he said investigation
is on going and that he was going to get to the root of the matter. Trumpet
online reporter also meet with the new president and its secretary of there
association to incorporate there own views on this said development, the
president , prince James who spoke in an indigenous dialect said the
media should apply wisdom in the discharge of its duties and that what was done
was unfair to all since the said person was actually there customer. He
reiterated that the inspector general of police should prohibit police men from
wearing mufti to specific location of this nature and that we all should now
that we all needs each other. ‘’Police, here, plays vital role and whilst its
customers and that it was a sad and unfortunate scenario that should not be
allowed to happen again’’. To the amazement of all, there secretary, Mr.
salaudeen mukaila told the gathering that it was true that the police extort
money from any stationary cars which should not be in the first instance, and
that which comes with force for that matter and that it must stop.
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