The police have arrested other six cops at the scene of the torture of a couple in the Lekki area of Lagos State.
A police source told Punch on Tuesday that the
policemen were being detained at the state police headquarters in Ikeja to
explain their role in the incident.
Ejeh Smith and his
wife, Grace, were allegedly tortured by a police corporal, Dada Ogunsanya, in
the Lekki area.
They were going home in
a cab when the incident happened.
Ogunsanya was alleged
to have hit Ejeh with his rifle and stepped on the stomach of his wife, while
the other policemen looked on.
A passerby, who saw the
attack, was said to have insisted that the attention of the police DPO be
called to the incident.
The DPO, Aisha Haruna,
on arrival at the scene, allegedly backed Ogunsanya’s action and deleted
Grace’s recordings of the attack.
Following Punch’s report of the
incident, which drew the ire of Nigerians, the Inspector General of Police,
Suleiman Abba, ordered “a full-scale investigation” into the case.
Abba, in a statement by
the Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, said the police would not
spare any cop found culpable in the course of investigations.
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