A female student of the Lagos State University (LASU) and her sister were allegedly beaten by policemen at Durosimin Drive, Etti Lekki Phase 1 in Lagos State.
It was said to have started when the two ladies, Lilian Ifemeludike and Sewuese Mathew reportedly branched a vulcanizing spot on February 8th to fix a tire but unknown to them, task force men were raiding.
According to Lilian Ifemeludike who shared the brutal story online, while the vulcaniser was working on the tire, some mobile police men and men of the Lagos State Taskforce team appeared and started to confiscate the goods of the petty traders and fruit sellers on the roadside.
They came to the vulcanizer’s corner and started to seize his compressor machine. At this point I started to plead with the men to kindly allow the man finish my tire so I could run along especially since he had already loosened the tire from my car so that I could also meet up with my meeting. I went on to tirelessly plead with other member of their team asking that they let him fix up my tire.
All my pleas fell on deaf ears and some even threatened to harm me if I didn’t leave the scene. Chaos was brewing at this point and people began to cluster around the scene as other mobile police men were chasing people away and confiscating their goods.
To my utter amazement, my sister came to me with a swollen and a bloodshot eye crying and saying she was punched twice in the eye by one of the mobile police men because he she was filming the incident. I then took her to the leader of the team in order to call his attention to what his officer had done to my sister.
As I approached the mobile police men with my sister, they asked that I submit my mobile phone to them. Seeing that they were coming strongly and quickly at me, I immediately held tightly to my phone and started pacing back into the premises of a grocery store close to me.
Before I could get the chance to run into the store, they kicked me to the interlocked floor and started to plunge punches and blows on me. I was still holding onto my phone and would not let go of it. My sister was crying and asking them to stop beating me. She couldn’t bear the magnitude of the beating that was meted out to me and came to rescue me but they pounced on her as well and she began to receive her own share of the blows and punches.
Alas, they succeeded and collected my phone and got into their van to drive off. I was absolutely dumbfounded and didn’t know what next to do. Even more confusing was the fact that I did not know where their station was situated. I could not leave my phone in the hands of strangers who had already physically assaulted and battered my sister and I and we got into their van.
We all drove to the Oshodi police station/taskforce office, where I and my sister were asked to write down our statement. When the principal police officer (Supol Olayinka Egbeyemi) arrived, he was briefed about the case and we were called upon to narrate ourside of the story.
On sighting my sister’s face, he asked her (in his words) “Who did this to you”? After telling him what transpired between us and his men, he ordered that all the people involved in the incident be invited saying (again in his words) “I want to see the person who did this to this young lady”. He said he wasn’t happy and was going to make sure that the matter be resolved.
After some hours, all the police men involved (2 uniformed police men, 5 mobile policemen, 1 mobile police woman and 1 man in plain clothes). We all appeared before Mr Olayinka Egbeyemi who after hearing the well fabricated story of his men, promised to deal with us and ordered that me and my sister be detained and charged to court the next day on the ground that we molested his men.
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