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Police Brutality In Benin City: An Ongoing Menace With No Signs Of Ending by fredpaul: 10:58pm On Sep 12, 2017
- Armed men who turned out to be Police Officers abuse innocent civilian in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.

- The armed men had no Police identification, uniform or car.

- Commandeered victims with a private car.

- Unleashed slaps and punches on innocent victims.

- Issue left unchecked even after reporting to authorities.
Like many residents in Benin City, three young men drove through the city on a Saturday evening with no intention of breaking the law or disturbing the peace and certainly no inclination that they were about to become victims of the highest level of Police brutality and abuse against civilians.

However, as they made their way back home on Saturday the 9th of September 2017, they made a turn from Airport Road into Boundary Road and suddenly from nowhere, they were suddenly commandeered off the road by a private vehicle (Reg Number: BEN160TN) with four armed men.

Out of fear, the young men parked the car and pondered about their safety and also what their fates would be before the armed men.

As the young men stopped the car, one of them stepped out of the vehicle and asked the armed men what they wanted. He was then informed that they were Police Officers.

The young men (victims) found this hard to believe as there was no identification on the armed men, no uniforms or even a vehicle with Police markings on sight. As a result, the first victim (Victim 1) who came down asked the armed men how they could be identified as Police officers

Upon making this request, the Police officer closest to the first victim stated that he was stupid for asking such a question.

In response, Victim 1 stated he was not stupid. The second armed police man asked the victim 1 why he was abusing the police officer and before he could respond, the first officer slapped the victim with the second officer following up with a punch in quick succession.

In the midst of the chaos, the driver of the victims vehicle was also brutalised in the process.

The Third officer then approached the scene and pled with his colleagues to stop brutalising the victims.

After creating a scene on the roadside with several drivers and pedestrians stopping to see what was going on, the four armed men entered their private vehicle and fled the scene.

Following the incident, the first victim was rushed to a private hospital for treatment and subsequently to the Nigerian Police Force Hospital as requested by the Police for proper documentation.

This incident has now been reported at both the Airport Road Police Station in Benin City and an informal complaint at the State Criminal Investigation Department (CID) also in Benin.

As at the time of reporting the case at the police station, it was discovered that the four armed men were Police officers from Airport Road Police Station in Benin.

This case is only one of the numerous cases of Police brutality against residents of Benin City in Edo State and perhaps across Nigeria and with issues like this continuously left unchecked, the efforts of the Federal Government in making the Nigerian Police Force community focused would certainly go down the drain.

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Re: Police Brutality In Benin City: An Ongoing Menace With No Signs Of Ending by Drversatile: 11:16pm On Sep 12, 2017
This people can rob one. If they don't have ulterior motive, why not showed the young man ID? The people to uphold the law are the culprits.
Re: Police Brutality In Benin City: An Ongoing Menace With No Signs Of Ending by Abudu2000(m): 4:27am On Sep 13, 2017
Same thing happens everywhere in lagos. Once you see police in their hilux fear not but when they carry danfo and wear a top black cloths to cover their id then knoq that any young boy that pass is in big sh*t...

Nigeria police are no different that kidnappers to me coz they use just exactly the same method. One night i was abducted i was afraid i have been kidnapper but i suddenly found myself wondering how these could be policemen and had to cover their face to arrest someone.

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Re: Police Brutality In Benin City: An Ongoing Menace With No Signs Of Ending by fredpaul: 6:45am On Sep 13, 2017
cc lalasticlala fynestboi Mynd44 Do the needful front page please, lets put an end to this police brutality, you might be a victim someday
Re: Police Brutality In Benin City: An Ongoing Menace With No Signs Of Ending by 2shure: 8:52am On Sep 13, 2017
I'm never scared.
If u compose yourself in a good manner
No shiita.
Sars needs to be killed off fully.
Sars are useless hungey bastards.
May they all die by road accidents and stray bullets.

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