A community leader, Alaba Peters, has accused men of the Lagos State Police Command of attacking him with an axe for intervening in a dispute.

The victim, who claimed to have been hospitalised after the incident, urged the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu, to bring the culprits to justice.

PUNCH Metro learnt that some policemen attached to the Anti-Cultism Unit, Gbagada, had stormed the Odogunyan area of the state around 4.30pm on August 10, 2020, and arrested some tricycle operators’ union workers.

The community leader was said to have intervened and asked the cops the reason for the arrest, which did not go down with them.

Peters told PUNCH Metro that he was beaten with an axe by the cops, who eventually drove the union workers away from the scene.

He said, “Some policemen came to Odogunyan on August 10 to arrest some people and some of our union workers were among those arrested; so, I approached the officers to ask why they arrested the union workers and I was told that because they were not wearing the union’s jacket; the policemen started shooting indiscrimenately and when I asked where they came from, they said they were from the Anti-Cultism Unit at Gbagada.

“When I saw that they were taking the boys away, I went back to meet them in front of the grammar school at Odogunyan to ask them what we could do to get the boys released, but the cops got angry that I came to meet them again and ordered me to sit on the floor and threatened to shoot me.

“I showed them my ID card but they refused to look at it and one of them went into their vehicle to bring an axe and started beating me with it. I want justice to prevail, because I cannot be treated like an animal. I sustained injuries all over my body as a result of the beating.”

An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, “We were at the bus stop when some members of the Anti-Cultism Unit came and arrested some of our boys and when we asked them what the boys did, they didn’t answer us; so, Alaba Peters approached them but they didn’t answer him and they took those boys away and Alaba Peters went back to meet them, but they brought out an axe from their car and started beating him with it.

“When we also approached the policemen, they started shooting indiscriminately, so we could not do anything and they took the boys away.

Source: https://punchng.com/police-assault-lagos-community-leader-with-axe/

You can hardly tell a police officer on duty and a cultist. They carry the same weapons except one is in uniform.

But honestly, upon all the money, this IG no still add flesh.

Those police officers must have been former members of Ayé confraternity.

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The police man is probably a tout.

I'm not surprised atall. Sometimes I wonder where they recruit this set of people from

Haaaa

psucc:
You can hardly tell a police officer on duty and a cultist. They carry the same weapons except one is in uniform.

But honestly, upon all the money, this IG no still add flesh

Adding flesh/buttocks/breasts naturally is not all about money

It seems some people on this nairaland does not have a viable job so thats why they are always struggling for who first comments on any new topic that hits the front page.
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On the Op news, its clear that the recruitment system and procedures of most government parastastal needs to be changed as in competent ,undisciplined and unprofessional job seekers cannot be given jobs in our security organizations. This is a clarion call on the IGP of police to look not only on the applicants qualifications before recruitment as that may be in tangible ,deceptive on the paper it is written on. Most heads of most law enforcement agencies would do better by carrying out underground,hidden investigation on the character, remarks,personality and integrity reports on each and every employee irreslective of their rank and profile. Even the ordinary sergent or DSP should be scrutinized properly. Our failure in Nigeria to have a comprehensive database of everybody past records as it is done in advanced climes poses a challenger but that should not tie our hands from getting rightly qualified persons.every petitions, bad report against any person in our security force should be enough to cast aspersions on such a person whom it was written against even if such person has not been tried and heard.we cannot throw to dogs the sanctity of our hallowed legal enforcement institutions to the dogs .we need more workshops and bench forums for adequate reorientation of our security personals to desist from unfathomable and despicable acts that are illegal and also the repercussions of failing to stop becoming unwanton opressive and inhuman towards citizens of Nigeria who are humans like them as we are all creatures in the hands of Almighty God who will fade away as dust one day.so it is imperative the police men stop seeing themselves as power drunk and rascals

it always shocks me the level of thuggishness of our police.
here in Uyo, dey just wear black polo, no uniform even, you see people on mufti carrying guns and you start retracing your steps.
all of them have cutlass(SARS) in their car, small thing and they attack you with it. in Nigeria if you ever want to come out the way you meet a police, just accept everything they say and form good boy, until your lawyer arrives, or else, they will impair you for life before help comes.

we will say, its the govt, but our brothers, sisters, husbands, friends are the ones doing these, but we never evangelize them to see reasons to be civil.

Nigerian policemen are a bunch of lunatics.

Peters told PUNCH Metro that he was beaten with an axe by the cops, who eventually drove the union workers away from the scene.

Haaaaaaaa!!
Axe kwa �

Wetin Musa no go see for gate?
Wetin Chinedu no go see warehouse?
Wetin Kola no go see for inside engine?

Na wa!!

Na dem

If you know you know

Nigerian policemen are a huge disgrace.


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The police man must be an axe guy.

Aye mafooo na so so Kata Kata dem de do

They should just give us this community policing. Shebbi my neighbor will mess up because say him ña police officer.

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Hmmmmmm
Axe, Cutlass or gun all are weapon.

Axe?
He be cultist? Or wetin police dey use axe do when he no be butcher.
Who are they recruiting into forces nowadays sef
They are not different from dem agberos

Chai!
Wetin Chief priest no go see for evil forest

SandraJane:
A community leader, Alaba Peters, has accused men of the Lagos State Police Command of attacking him with an axe for intervening in a dispute.

“I showed them my ID card but they refused to look at it and one of them went into their vehicle to bring an axe and started beating me with it. I want justice to prevail, because I cannot be treated like an animal. I sustained injuries all over my body as a result of the beating.”
Source: https://punchng.com/police-assault-lagos-community-leader-with-axe/

Majority of these policemen are from the northern extract!

They know nothing about the custom or tradition of a place, they just misbehaves imagine, using an axe to beat someone

Look into this matter, the bone of contention is not more than money!!!

This is the society, we are building if we don't collectively speak out against the injustice happening in it!

If you are one of those people that felt unconcerned when the Shiites, IPOB were unjustly murdered then you deserve what has come your way!!!

It's turn by turn, it will definitely get to you!!!

Nigeria is just an amusement park where all sort of things happens.

psucc:
You can hardly tell a police officer on duty and a cultist. They carry the same weapons except one is in uniform.

But honestly, upon all the money, this IG no still add flesh.

the police officer was a former cultist.

Lobaatan..John Thomas don tire for naija matter

we jst dey hear nonsense daily

Rubbish country

Macgyver1:
The police man is probably a tout.

lout