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I remember vividly the day these anti cult guys burnt down a students Lexus 350 at ujoelen street, mhen i gbeseee oh unto say me Na engineering student, Mk person nor go hold me say I be cultist. . Sometimes They'll invade our exam hall n selects student assumed to be cultist. Dem nor born you well to talk say ahhhh bros pls, sir abeegg if them select you, Haaa! Okpari! You have die b that.. They take laws into their hands, brutalize n manhandle students like rumpled clothes. They seized my laptop one day while I was returning from evening studies, after searching all my files n folders they found nothing incriminating, only for one of them stupid idiot to call me to a corner n said since am in engineering I shud bring 10k, that if they shud tk me to their station they will download some incriminating document and photos of white ladies unto my PC and they will send me to jail for fraud n yahoo yahoo. See cold wey run enter my pi'pi . Na me con go DE oh, say sir pls sir, ayam jurz a student, haa don't haff money pls, I quote bible sef they jus DE look me like cinema, last last them jonz me 2k plus serious warning wey dem cut give me. If you see they way I take cast ehnnn like wili'wili . I run from sch till I reach my lodge. My people!!!! They beef wey i get for those anti squad Na everlasting oh, dm must gv me my 2k. Thnk God for my life say I DON graduate leave all those witch....

Inspectorsuga:
I don't know who is more stuupid between u n d idiots clicking "like" to dis irritating comment from ur malfunctional brain cells...

You are the most stupid person so far so good.. why can't you bypass and move on, instead of you displayed your stupidity..

agongajoseph:
You son of a Bastard. Your turn will soon come, I pray u live to tell the story on a wheel chair. Idiot.

And the son of bitch..

AnyibestDede:
We all know that most of our police men are rogue, stupid and wicked but i think the prof brought this on himself. U saw a boy who was arrested u had to slow down and ask wat happend and u were asked to leave yet u went ahead parked ur car and came down to challange those beast. Am sure if the boy arrested was from a poor home the prof wouldn't have stop to ask wats going on. Sorry proff thats wat we ordinary Nigeria passes through everyday

It seems like u don't understand the writeup. Pls, read once again.

if a professor could be treated like this I wonder what will happen to a common man!

CheezyCharles:
all these would have been averted if he brought out 1 thousand naira note!....... the only language these bastards understand is money.

come...did u read d story at all.?

just take a look at d useless Nigeria Police Force....they are so archaic in deir approach to civil matters.. we have mad men in uniform

todaynewsreview:
Despite the campaign of the Inspector General of Police on decent policing in Nigeria, a rogue police squad in Edo State is thwarting the efforts. Martins Ifijeh chronicles how the squad serially brutalised a Professor of Law in Ambrose Alli University with cutlasses, hammers and teargas for daring to ask questions

When the Dean, Department of Law, Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Professor Sunday Edeko woke up in the morning of March 13, he did not envisage he would be serially brutalised for over six hours like a common criminal and would end up in hospital bed to treat the wounds and pain that came with such brutality.

He had left the house that morning like every other civil servant, when he saw a young boy he identified as a relation of the former Speaker, Edo State House of Assembly, Thomas Okosun, in a parked police van, which made him slow down and asked the boy what he was doing in the van.

Little did the Professor of Law know that his decision to ask the boy question at all, would be all that the rogue police squad, needed to use cutlasses, hammers, teargas, their boots, blows and slaps on him, claiming they were directly from the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Haliru Ugwandu’s office and acting on his command.

Narrating his ordeal to THISDAY, Edeko said on that particular day, when he slowed down to ask the boy what was the issue that he was put in the van, before the boy could reply, an armed man who was not on police uniform told him to get away. “Without even giving me time to move or offer an explanation, he used a hammer to hit my right hand. That was their first assault against me. I was surprised why a trained police officer would descend to such level of brutality against an unarmed and peaceful individual. I managed to park the car some metres away and alighted from the car. At that point, about five armed men who were not in police uniform advanced towards me.

“I clearly introduced myself as Prof. Sunday Edeko, the Dean of Faculty of Law, AAU, Ekpoma. All my attempts to explain that I am a law-abiding community leader fell on deaf ears. They started the second stage of their assault on me. They descended on me with hammers, cutlasses, tear gas, hand and foot. They brutalised me and inflicted injuries on my back, hand and leg.”

He said as soon as he left the scene of the unprovoked attack, he drove straight to the police station to report the matter, where a police officer was released to accompany him to the scene.

“When we arrived there, the attackers had gone. We went back to the police station and I sighted the men who brutalised me in the special anti-cult unit office. I then drew the attention of my police companion to them. They chased the police officer away and descended on me with a higher level of brutality. They said they were different from the “useless police officers in Ekpoma, and were only answerable to the Commissioner of Police, Edo State, Mr. Haliru Ugwandu.

“They fell me, kicked me around the floor in an atmosphere in which they used tear gas on my eyes, slapped me with cutlasses very many times that I could not count. That was the third stage of their assault. When my wife came, they threatened to arrest and charge her with armed robbery, kidnapping and cultism, the crimes they accused me of,” he said.

According to him, their fourth stage of brutality started when they gave him a pen and paper to write a statement. He said they compelled him to write even though he was in pains. “They tore my first two statements because they said I should not write my name as “Professor Sunday Edeko. They equally seized the third and fourth statements because they were not written in the exact way they wanted.”

He said when the men could not lay hold on a crime against him, they then started accusing him of cultism, which him personally has always been against. Adding that throughout the period they detained and tortured him, which was between 9:30a.m. to 3p.m., he made uncountable number of appeals to them that he was a responsible Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Law. “The more I introduced myself, the more they got infuriated.

“They then later accused me of an attempt to go and buy Indian hemp from a woman they also arrested. It was even in the police station that I met the woman for the first time as I never knew her before then. I have never smoked Indian hemp and I hope they will agree for all of us to do examination to know who will test positive of Indian hemp consumption.

“I never obstructed them since all I asked one of the boys after they were already arrested was a simple “what happened?” I have never insulted the police. In fact, I collaborated with them in the past to play a better role in law enforcement. Even after they brutalised me in town, I went to the police station because of the confidence I have in the police. Only a fool will obstruct and insult the police and still go to the police station to seek their protection. I am not a fool. Moreover, an unarmed civilian of my status has no capacity whatsoever to obstruct close to a dozen police officers who were fully armed and who effected arrest already.

“Whenever I failed to write the exact thing they told me to write so as to incriminate myself, the more they slapped me with hand and cutlasses and sprayed teargas on my face. They only stopped beating me after they used their torture cutlass to cut the shoulder of one of the suspects. I have been able to identify the boy they cut on the shoulder through the same hospital we went for treatment. About 12 of us were in their torture office. They detained me behind the counter for about two hours before I was released with the intervention of the Onoje of Ekpoma and the Divisional Police Officer. I immediately proceeded to the General Hospital Ekpoma for medical attention.”

The highly respected professor in the academic community said as though their brutality was not enough, they compelled him to write an apology letter over an incident in which they brutalised and dehumanised him, hoping they could use that to cover their tracks when in fact it only aggravates their degree of impunity.

“They are the people who owe me apology and compensation. I never broke the law. They broke the law with the highest level of impunity and recklessness. I need to add that I am not the only person they have so brutalised as others are willing to step forward for their testimonies.

“Ekpoma is now in a state of fear. They attack people with impunity. They have broken up birthday parties in hotels. They raided Hisbanah Hotel near No 17 Eromon Street and arrested more than 50 boys and girls who were in a birthday party. The owner of the hotel, a former local government Head of Service called Mr. Cyril Abhulimen informed me. They equally used cutlasses and hammer to torture them.”

He said in a society where they arrest innocent people, it cannot be said that they are combating crimes at all, adding that Ekpoma has become a town under siege. ‘This is the right time to stop these men now. It is not just about me but about the people of Ekpoma. I just happen to be the first to openly complain. So many people have been brutalised. The day they arrested me there was no space in the cell to detain some of us because it was filled up. Those arrested hardly get charged to court. The woman they accused of selling Indian hemp was released without charge.

‘Their leader in the anti-cult office who joined other police officers to brutalise me is ASP Ojo. One of the attackers is Mr. Harrison whom I later learnt to be a native of Illeh. I was released when the Divisional Police Office (DPO) came and appealed to them. I was not taken on bail but simply released.”

He said while the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Nigerian Bar Association have taken some steps over the matter, he has petitioned Zone 5 Police Headquarters and feels ashamed over what a section of the police has turned into in a society where stakeholders and respected citizens like him were advocating for a better society.

Edeko called on President Muhammadu Buhari, the Inspector General of Police, the Police Service Commission, and well meaning Nigerians to help him fight for justice and stop police brutality and the bad image of the police which the new Inspector General was trying to do.

Meanwhile, when THISDAY contacted the Edo State Commissioner of Police, Ugwandu, which the rogue police squad claimed were acting on his instruction, he said he was just hearing of the incident for the first time, and that such persons who carried out the brutality would not have been said to be policemen. He outrightly denied that they are not police men.

Recently, the IG, Ibrahim Idris said the force was determined to rid the country of policemen who continue to soil the name of the police force, adding that all heads of various police commands, including Assistant Inspector Generals of police and commissioners have been advised not to entertain indecency in their various commands.

A recent investigation showed that hundreds of thousands of innocent Nigerians are being brutalised yearly, with over 1000 innocent persons killed recklessly by police officers.

What therefore comes to mind is, if police men can serially brutalise a Professor in the 21st century, what hope has the common man without a voice has? How many have such rogue police squad assaulted and tortured for simply daring to look them in the face.? If truly the IG is serious with the much talked about image salvaging, the Edo rogue squad should be identified and disciplined accordingly by the force.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/04/12/edo-police-goes-wild/

The police is your friend. Bail is free. Nigeria is the capital of Edo

todaynewsreview:
“When we arrived there, the attackers had gone. We went back to the police station and I sighted the men who brutalised me in the special anti-cult unit office. I then drew the attention of my police companion to them. They chased the police officer away and descended on me with a higher level of brutality. They said they were different from the “useless police officers in Ekpoma, and were only answerable to the Commissioner of Police, Edo State, Mr. Haliru Ugwandu.

This part got me rolling on the floor

paddyofboss:
so he shouldn't HV asked abi...and d best way to ask someone to leave in a civilised society is by using hammer to hit his hand..u could have just shot him naw

We were not there when all these happend so we cannot really say how it happend.

Willybos:
It seems like u don't understand the writeup. Pls, read once again.

You that understood the writeup pls explain it to me

If i tell you my story of what i experience with those police in ekpoma..hmmm those guys made me look as if am a criminal.Police that's suppose to protect you,will steal money you have on you and then threaten you for no just reason.

The way most police animals carry themselves because of uniform, I once asked an officer why he stopped me, for good 15minutes he was barking ignoring the question, even if your walking with an empty hand, you would suspect yourself once you site a police animal, they harrass citizens anyhow, lack proper security training why won't thugs use them? Make this man no lay low the matter pls

I will continue to advocate licensing of gun to all Nigerians... The death of police men no dey pain me because 90% of them are DEVILS

KingBillionaire:
I remember vividly the day these anti cult guys burnt down a students Lexus 350 at ujoelen street, mhen i gbeseee oh unto say me Na engineering student, Mk person nor go hold me say I be cultist. . Sometimes They'll invade our exam hall n selects student assumed to be cultist. Dem nor born you well to talk say ahhhh bros pls, sir abeegg if them select you, Haaa! Okpari! You have die b that.. They take laws into their hands, brutalize n manhandle students like rumpled clothes. They seized my laptop one day while I was returning from evening studies, after searching all my files n folders they found nothing incriminating, only for one of them stupid idiot to call me to a corner n said since am in engineering I shud bring 10k, that if they shud tk me to their station they will download some incriminating document and photos of white ladies unto my PC and they will send me to jail for fraud n yahoo yahoo. See cold wey run enter my pi'pi . Na me con go DE oh, say sir pls sir, ayam jurz a student, haa don't haff money pls, I quote bible sef they jus DE look me like cinema, last last them jonz me 2k plus serious warning wey dem cut give me. If you see they way I take cast ehnnn like wili'wili . I run from sch till I reach my lodge. My people!!!! They beef wey i get for those anti squad Na everlasting oh, dm must gv me my 2k. Thnk God for my life say I DON graduate leave all those witch....

guy, you get luck o, the day one stopped me ,I know answer am, until I reach their check point when other armed officers were barking, like “how dare you, police dey call you, you dey waka" guy that police animal wey stop me at first looked like one of those beggars begging for alms o, is ID card was washed , nothing clear. I was surprised that he was one of those police animals.

Jabioro:
You call this brutalization.. When you see brute your grammar would seize..

What exactly is the point of ur post?

oyienootieno:
Have you forgotten so soon? The news that made headlines of recent where a police man fainted because he was transferred to maiduguri?

Lol

Majority of policemen on the streets are bunch of mad men. i saw one idiotic policeman trying to stop a girl that was driving a toyota camry car just because the colour of her car was pink. where do they get these arindin policemen from? why do they recruit animals, why do they feel they are unaccountable, why do they force people to write statements of something that never happened? why? the policemen at the top arent helping matters, its either they are out of touch with reality or trying to shield the erring policemen or trying to prove that their own policemen arent capable of such attrocities. this country is fvcked o with lots of insane people everywhere both online and offline

alexiej:
What exactly is the point of ur post?

I was trying to compare it to, the real one not this light touches, but many has misquoted me for simple literal meaning ..i never supported such act.. to my dismayed, many could not read between the lines of expression

AnyibestDede:
We all know that most of our police men are rogue, stupid and wicked but i think the prof brought this on himself. U saw a boy who was arrested u had to slow down and ask wat happend and u were asked to leave yet u went ahead parked ur car and came down to challange those beast. Am sure if the boy arrested was from a poor home the prof wouldn't have stop to ask wats going on. Sorry proff thats wat we ordinary Nigeria passes through everyday

Bro, please don't comment on nairaland again. did u read the post at all!

Let angry mobs ride up 2 descend on such hungry police men anytime such injustice occurs, will serve as a deterrent 2 unreputable & dangerous policemen. Enough is enough!

YelloweWest:
If this can happen to the deen of law faculty, what is the Hope of an ordinary citizen

p ohooh! Thank u

..so if u know a friends son arrested,,it will be a crime to stop and ask police men whose job it is to protect u some questions abi

AnyibestDede:
We all know that most of our police men are rogue, stupid and wicked but i think the prof brought this on himself. U saw a boy who was arrested u had to slow down and ask wat happend and u were asked to leave yet u went ahead parked ur car and came down to challange those beast. Am sure if the boy arrested was from a poor home the prof wouldn't have stop to ask wats going on. Sorry proff thats wat we ordinary Nigeria passes through everyday

AnyibestDede:
Guy forget that thing... The prof wanted to claim a super hero becuase the boy is from a rich home. If the boy was poor, the proff will look the other way. No be 9ja we dey?

ricfh home or poor home ...lectuerer saw a kid he knew in a police van,,,he did the right thing asking questions,,i no dey understand some of huna thinking sef

AnyibestDede:
You that understood the writeup pls explain it to me

I'm sure ur parents do not sent u 2 skul for nofin, but do somfin that atlist u will make them proud of you!

stacyadams:
ricfh home or poor home ...lectuerer saw a kid he knew in a police van,,,he did the right thing asking questions,,i no dey understand some of huna thinking sef

Bros me and u were not there to knw wat really happened. This is the prof side of the story wat if the police comes out with their own side of story Am not trying to side the police here, but we re used to condermning people we dnt like before hearing their own side of the story. How the prof asked the question in the first place matters

Jabioro:
I was trying to compare it to, the real one not this light touches, but many has misquoted me for simple literal meaning ..i never supported such act.. to my dismayed, many could not read between the lines of expression

Okay, I get u. Maybe it's because many of us are angry with the Police for their frequent woes and failures and ur post seemed to joke about it.
No p sha

Willybos:
I'm sure ur parents do not sent u 2 skul for nofin, but do somfin that atlist u will make them proud of you!

Bros nawa o! Just because i have a different opion from urs u have to insult me... Anyway i want u to knw that those police are Nigerians and they are a true reflation of whom we are as a people. Whether u like it or not we are not better than them

stacyadams:
..so if u know a friends son arrested,,it will be a crime to stop and ask police men whose job it is to protect u some questions abi

How did he ask the question, were u there?

Base on Logistics

Nigeria is turning into Zoo.

But wait, some students this man might have failed in Exam might be smiling right now.
They will be like : Prof you never see anything yet.

Pls let someone educate me

Can a lawless society have a lawful police?

The police are made of Nigerians who are our brothers, sisters, neighbours etc

Is it the uniform that corrupts them or they corrupt the uniform and the organisation.

Ever since police harassed me and my dad for no reason and how much we paid to be bailed , oh Lord! I hate everything about them and I pray never to have an encounter with them...
Very very stupid set of illiterate humans..