This portrays a video of a Nigerian mobile policeman assaulting a woman.
In the video the policeman, identified as Tafa Mohammed, strips the woman naked and beat her up in a pool of muddy water, points his gun menacingly at the woman and fires some shots in the Air.
Mohammed, who was captured in the video,
The policeman resisted sympathisers who tried to rescue the woman from him.
A message attached to the video, which was probably written by the eyewitness who captured the incident, said two women were assaulted by Mohammed.
According to the message, the incident took place on Lewis Street, Lafiaji, Obalende, Lagos Island. Mohammed, who was reportedly attached to Mopol 20 in Lagos, was said to have been drunk.
The report stated that the drunken policeman got annoyed when one of the women, a food seller, declined to sell fish to Mohammed. It was said that the food seller had insisted that fish was only for sale to customers buying food.
The woman who Mohammed physically assaulted in the video was reportedly a customer buying food from the food seller at the time.
In the video, Mohammed, who was said to have been reeking of alcohol at the time, pointed his gun at the crowd that had gathered at the scene and threatened to shoot.
After a moment, he then pointed the gun up and shot into the air.
A voice from one of those in the crowd kept challenging Mohammed to shoot.
“Kill am now, shoot now, oya shoot,” the unidentified witness said.
Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos Command, Ngozi Braide, said she was not aware of the incident, adding that she had not seen the video.
1 comment:
The power madness and drunkenness is so entrenched that it is a legacy from above through to the rank and file in public services especially the forces. The solution can only be more stringent policies and vetting systems to ensure forces members are psychologically and socially sober when they are in the discharge of their duties. This particular situation is so damning for the police force that viewers have found it sub-normal and demeaning of any group charged with protection of life and security, with added community-building capacity.
Tafa Mohammed should count himself lucky he was not mobbed, However, his misconduct can only be remedied with an ignominous expulsion from the police force - He's a very bad image of what the Nigeria police should look like.
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