The Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police Force has announced the identity of the police officers who harassed road users in Rivers state.
“We have paraded three policemen who were involved in the assault on a Motorist and his wife in Port Harcourt,” said CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force Public Relations Officer, at the Force Headquarters on Tuesday.
“Inspector Adejoh Siaka, Inspector Friday Obaka, and Sgt. Ndiwa Kpuebari from Rivers State were the officers seen in a viral video assaulting a man and other passengers.”
On Monday, the Police Force Headquarters had ordered the arrest of the officers.
The viral video showed one officer assaulting a man in the middle of a road, while his colleagues, not in approved uniforms but armed, stood by.
The officer hit the man with a stick, slapped him multiple times, and forced him into a vehicle. Another officer in the video was seen pushing other passengers to their car and cocking his gun.
After a public outcry, the police authority condemned the action of the policemen. “Their conduct doesn’t represent the character of the Nigeria Police Force nor is it the practice in the Force,” they said.
