The Nigeria Police (NPF) is the principal law enforcement agency in Nigeria which is established to combat crime and ensure security of lives and property of the citizenry. Experience over the years has shown that the force has lived below expectation. Some of the reasons explaining this failure include corruption, delayed justice, impartiality among others.
Moreover, The maxim that the police is friends with the ordinary 'bloody' citizens was once again rubbished when a 70-year-old man identified as Gbenga Omolo, a member of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), was allegedly tortured to death while in detention in the cells of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Ondo State Police Command, and then labelling the man an armed robber.


According to reports, Omolo suffered untold and dehumanizing beatings in the hands of the police officers for several hours at the Oda Road SARS office and died in their custody and the operatives later dumped his corpse in the mortuary of the State Specialist Hospital, Akure.

Members of his union made the death of Omolo known during a protest they staged to decry the murder of one of their own.

According to a member of the union, Omolo was not arrested for any robbery related offence and wondered why the old man should be detained at the SARS office and why he should even be tortured in the first place.

It was gathered that Omolo got into trouble when he challenged a police officer in mufti for obstructing the road with his vehicle.

The report has it that on Thursday, May 28, there was a traffic hold-up at the popular Arakale Road, Akure, the state capital, and the late Omolo who was coming through the road, discovered that it was a car that obstructed the road and he was said to have questioned the driver of the vehicle, not knowing that he was a police officer.

This effrontery seemed to anger the officer as eyewitnesses report that he came down from his car and attacked the elderly man, beating and pummelling him in the process.

The action incensed some sympathizers who went to the man's rescue and mediated on his behalf.

But the officer was not palliated as he mobilized his colleagues the following day and they stormed the area and started arresting anyone in sight and on inquiring about the 'insolent' old man, the heavily armed SARS operatives were taken to Omolo and he was arrested and taken to their station where he was promptly dumped in the cell.

A source said that the sum of N150,000 was demanded for his and his union members rallied and raised the sum of N100,000 to go and bail the man four days later only to realise that he had died in police custody.

source : http://streetgist.com/70-yr-old-man-dies-after-torture-in-detention/

NPF Our greatest enemy

R.I.P. to the dead.

As I be 1st to comment for the 1st time na God win. All thanks to the Nairaland app for the alert!

If u see the picture the op attached, u will think they are men of integrity not knowing they are men of calamity...

Men n black is ur friend...

koligs:
K

Ejovwoke:
R

Na wa ooo

Why are you guys behaving like touts

Nigeria

Nawa o

Nigeria police are just murderers in Uniform

Animals In Black...

efilefun:

Go and brush your teeth

So painful .

Sad.

If nobody is punished for this, it will continue as always. It already is a norm.

no good can come out of NPF.

Does monkeys aint suppost to be mingling with people):

Amnesty International has a case.

Police is not your friend. This is another area this present government needs to focus more on. There is something fundamentally wrong with these men in Black(widow makers), I guess the curses by the people on them, because of numerous inference like this, is affecting the generality of them. I would like a situation where those cadres of cops, that have direct contacts with the general public and suspects, are graduates, who must have undergone a psychological evaluation, before unleashing them to the public. This presents ones are just widow makers.

;Dwith this police pix way be like hungry manh

Justice is all we want, our so called president is busy going round the world. Let's see if he can beat Jackie chans record

Memories of human right abuses, memories of 1983. And he isn't even up to 1 week in office. I miss GEJ

Who detained him at first..

clefstone:
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G for goat.... Like you

police is your friend thats what they say


i can see how friendly they are

Idle Amnesty International wont see this to follow up. They are only good at fighting for the rights of TERRORISTs

Extra judicial killings a sector of our Nigerian police

they are crazy people

space


i almost no fit find this space again.

RIP oldman

the police can never be your friend

Bad cops

I hate the words 'Nigerian Police'

DickDastardly:

You buy the glass for osodi under bridge??

kai buba

clefstone:
G

golf?

coolhamid:
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See as your prick be like the dot....