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  • You can’t retaliate when a policeman slaps you – Police PRO

    You can’t retaliate when a policeman slaps you – Police PRO

    The Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Nigeria Police Force, Olumuyiwa Adejobi says a civilian has no right to retaliate if a police officer slaps or physically abuses them.

    Adejobi said this in a response to a series of reactions to a video showing two men grappling the rifle of a police officer on Saturday.

    “Even if a policeman on uniform slaps a civilian, the civilian has no right to retaliate. More so, if he’s on uniform. It’s an act of disrespect to Nigeria to beat an officer on uniform,” Adejobi said in a short thread on Twitter.

    “The disrespect is not to the policeman but to our nation and its a crime as enshrined in our criminal laws. So it’s not a case of what the policeman did, that led to it, but the reaction of the civilians who actually assaulted the police.

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    “If police assault a civilian, you report and actions will be taken to rebuke him, not to take the law into your hands. Let alone it’s a matter of checking of phones, which can be easily reported and addressed. Now they are kept in our 5-n Lagos and will be in court on Monday. Are you going to visit them or send them food, or appear in court to defend them?”

    Adejobi once said police officers had no right to check the phones of random civilians.

  • Angry mob set multiple okadas ablaze over killing of a pedestrian

    There  was pandemonium  at Jakande Estate, Isolo area of Lagos State,  on Thursday morning when a mob reportedly set about 20 commercial motorcycles, popularly called okada, ablaze after an accident which killed a pedestrian.

    The Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin,  confirmed the incident and said the pedestrian died immediately she was hit.

    Hundeyin  further explained that the death of the pedestrian led an angry mob in the area to set motorcycles  belonging  to fleeing riders ablaze following the police rescue of the culprit whom the mob initially wanted to lynch.

    Hundeyin said “It is important to clear the air on what’s going on at Jakande Estate/Isheri Road. This morning, a motorcycle rider veered off the road and hit a pedestrian. Unfortunately, the pedestrian fell and died on the spot. People around decided to lynch the motorcycle rider.

    “The Police arrived at the scene on time and rescued the motorcycle rider from lynching. The Police immediately took the rider to the hospital for treatment and evacuated the pedestrian. Before the Police arrived back at the scene, a mob was already burning the motorcycles left behind by the fleeing riders.

    “The Lagos State Police Command condemns jungle justice in very strong terms. Anyone found engaging in such would be dealt with in accordance with the law,” Hundeyin stated.

  • Rival cult groups clash in Ilorin, one killed

    Rival cult groups clash in Ilorin, one killed

    Cultists in Okesuna/Ojagboro area of Ilorin, Kwara state have renewed their rivalry as one person is reportedly dead on Sunday night.

    The victim who was identified Tantala, was caught up and murdered in the clash between rival cult groups in the state.

    The bloody clash, according to eyewitness accounts, started around 11:00pm when the rival cult group hacked down and killed the victim, also suspected to be a member of a cult group.

    SP Okasanmi Ajayi, Kwara state police Public Unit confirmed clash between cult groups in Ilorin on Sunday, saying the police is now on top of the situation.

    Okasanmi said, “the information is true and the Commissioner of Police, Tuesday Assayomo, has ordered an investigation into the incident.”