…Calls For Investigation
A Yet to be identified Policeman
Attached to Ipaja Alagolo Police Division has threaten to kill popular Urban
Express News Editor Segun Ariyo in a location not far from Jakande Estate
within ipaja metropolis at the point of making u-turn within a conflict-point
Narrating what transpired, Mr
Olusegun Ariyo, the publisher of the popular newspaper Urban Express, said it
all started when some fierce-looking policemen were Jogging from the opposite
direction of ipaja Ayobo road signifying their origin, stopped moving vehicles
that are within the point of making a U-turn from the other side of the road,
given that they were coming in numbers inside a sienna vehicle with purple
colour identification, with an inscription of “Nigeria Police” Lagos state
Command.
“As we were ask to wait, while it
took about twenty minutes of waiting, decided to sign at the policeman that it
was an emergency situation and that he should allow me to pass, what followed
was, you are stupid, pointed firearm toward my direction and threaten to kill
me”, he narrated.
“I will wipe-out you and your generation,
who are you to say you want to go? The policeman asked me.
Continuing Olusegun Ariyo said he
was shivering, he added “my daughter was excruciating pains with malaria
symptom and all efforts to make him see reasons fell on his deaf ears.
“While waiting endlessly for
their vehicle to pass from a long-distance stretch, just because they wanted to
manoeuvre there way from traffic a bottle-neck, we waited for over twenty
minutes, as they eventually came through with the said sienna space buss and
passed; the said policeman walked sluggishly, entered their vehicle as he
continues with using inflammatory words coming with a threat”.
“This is a policeman that is
supposed to protect people’s lives and property, is the same individual using
Gun bought with taxpayers money to point at a Nigerian and at the same time
threatening to kill with it, not minding the facts that there was an emergency
at hand but the fact that he’s wearing that uniform, it becomes a certificate
to oppress up to the level of wanting to shot”.
Ariyo wondered while with all
that transpired that led to the protest against police brutality, some those
bad eggs still persist even with all the said rolled-out training
“The command once said in a
statement that it is embarking on training to give them a new leaf, but judging
from the action of this said policeman today, it seems there’s still a longer
walk to freedom.
He said at the conflict-point
where he wanted to make a u-turn, there has been an issue of non-traffic
officer’s presence after the EndSARS protest, adding that this has been the
norm for those on that routine duty not to come to take up their bit instead to
watch and look away as if it’s not part of their responsibility.
“Let me call on the Lagos State
commissioner of police, CP Hakeem Odumosu to investigate a case of threat to my
life as such words are too weighty to be thrown inside the trash”.
His word: “ the Lagos state
commissioner of police, CP Hakeem Odumosu should endeavour to investigate these
matter before the threat is carryout as one need not wait for such threat to
life is carried out especially coming from a uniform man that have access to
fire-arm at all times
The visibly disappointed editor
told this writer that he knew one of the policemen specifically the one driving
the vehicle, saying there’s the need to put inside their ongoing curriculum “
Behavior Pattern and Management as it is observed that the said policeman lacks
such, he said
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