Update on Molested Couple in Lekki- Police Arrest Power-drunk Policemen

The police have arrested other six cops at the scene of the torture of a couple in the Lekki area of Lagos State.

A police source said that on Tuesday that the policemen were being detained at the state police headquarters in Ikeja to explain their role in the incident.

Our correspondent had reported how Ejeh Smith and his wife, Grace, were allegedly tortured by a police corporal, Dada Ogunsanya, in the Lekki area.

They were going home in a cab when the incident happened.

Ogunsanya was alleged to have hit Ejeh with his rifle and stepped on the stomach of his wife, while the other policemen looked on.

 

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A passerby, who saw the attack, was said to have insisted that the attention of the police DPO be called to the incident.

The DPO, Aisha Haruna, on arrival at the scene, allegedly backed Ogunsanya’s action and deleted Grace’s recordings of the attack.

The Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, ordered “a full-scale investigation” into the case.

Abba, in a statement by the Force Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ojukwu, said the police would not spare any cop found culpable in the course of investigations.

The police had detained all the policemen involved in the incident pending the conduct of an orderly room trial.

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