It was a show of shame yesterday as three regular policemen in uniform gave a mobile policeman, also in uniform, the beating of his life in front of the Lagos State University (LASU). A crowd of about 30 people watched in surprise.
The mobile policeman, Anni Emmanuel with tag number 441195 was alleged to be illegally escorting a van when he was accosted by men of the Ojo police station and was to be forced into a police pick-up vehicle.
The mobile policeman repeatedly explained that he was only given a lift by the van driver from mile2 as he was on his way to Ajangbadi where he lives but his fellow policemen would have none of it. The team which was led by an officer said to be the provost at the station (name withheld) ordered his men to get the mobile policemen into the waiting patrol vehicle.
In their effort to get him into the patrol vehicle, he was not only man-handled but was thrown into the gutter but luckily for him, there was no water in the gutter and his uniform was torn. Efforts by some mobile police officers posted to guard the gate of LASU to intervene proved abortive.
As the show of shame continued, the number of regular policemen, mobile policemen and on lookers grew.
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