The Lagos state Police command and the Inspector- General of Police, IGP, Usman Alkali Baba, were blasted by Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, for assigning five operatives of the Force to protect a musician, Burna Boy.

The rights group said this sort of deployment which is absolutely irregular, has become the norm in the police force of Nigeria.

The rights group said that explains why there is absence of preemptive actions in times of critical needs because the few operatives are all sent for private commercial jobs by their Area Commanders and Commissioners and probably by approval of the Inspector-General.

HURIWA said this following a recent incident at a Lagos night club, where Burna Boy’s police escorts shot at a man after the musician allegedly made passes at the man’s wife.

The Lagos State Police Commissioner’s Special Squad has since detained the five policemen attached to the singer for attempted murder.

One of the policemen was said to have shot at two fun seekers— Irebami Lawrence and another identified simply as Tolu, at Club Cubana on Victoria Island, Lagos, on Wednesday.



According to a preliminary report by the Bar Beach Police Division, the trouble started when the Burna Boy and his five police escorts entered the nightclub around 4:am on June 8.

While about four policemen waited outside, one of them, identified as Inspector Ibrahim, who was in mufti, accompanied the Grammy-Award-winning artiste into the club.

The singer was in the VIP section with three women when he allegedly spotted another woman.

However, the lady’s husband was said to have ............ https://janefblog.com/club-cubana-shooting-lagos-police-command-under-fire-for-assigning-five-officers-to-burna-boy/

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