LAGOS—A mother of two was allegedly beaten, weekend, by a policeman suspected to be attached to the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, SUCO Road, Abattoir, Agege, Lagos State, for criticising a policeman’s reckless driving.
The unidentified policeman is curently on the run.
The victim, Mrs Abimbola Oriade, told Vanguard that she was beaten to a pulp by the policeman, who was in mufti.
She said: “I was in a commercial bus, heading to Agege Pen Cinema, when a RRS car with number plates NPF 408 D, which was speeding, veered off its lane and applied the brake abruptly in his attempt to make a U-turn, only for the vehicle to hit the commercial bus I was in.
“The commercial bus driver drove after the RRS vehicle, which had refused to stop to know the extent of damage done to the commercial bus and its passengers. He drove into their base on SUCO Road, Abattoir.
“A policeman at the gate, one Monday Okon, refused to allow our bus inside. We alighted from the bus, explaining the near-tragic accident to the officer at the gate, when another policeman in mufti pounced on me and another male passenger, saying we should go and do our worst.“
However, sources at RRS Alausa, told Vanguard that the said plate number did not correspond with any of their vehicles’.
They hinted that investigation would commence immediately with a view to fishing out the fleeing officer and the alleged reckless driver.
by ROTMANLUV 2023-07-08, 17:34
