The police in Lagos have said the 29-year-old photographer, Ejeh Smith, who was brutalised by a policeman attached to the Ikoyi Police Division along with his wife, Grace, was drunk on the night of the incident. (Read here)
The police authorities
added that the couple engaged the policeman in a scuffle, adding that since the
incident happened, they had refused to make statements to the police.
The Police Public
Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, told Punch that the police had, however, detained
the erring policeman, Dada Ogunsanya, assuring members of the public that
justice would be served.
The Lagos police’s
defence came as the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, ordered a full
scale investigation into the case...
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