WATCH: Police brutalise Nigerian actor, woman in Lagos
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Actor Gideon Okeke has narrated how operatives of the Police Force stationed in Maroko, Victoria Island brutalised and manhandled himself and a woman late Saturday.
He said he had just left a meeting at Eko Hotel and prepared to head to a show when he was involved in a minor collision the Lekki Phase I roundabout with another driver he identified as Mrs Mosunmola Ilori.
Police who were nearby, according to Okeke, would then escalate the incident after they were asked for help.
“We both inspected the damage(s), conferred and thought first, to get off the road for oncoming traffic,” he shared.
“Just less than 10 feet away from all this were the Lastma and Police, sharing the police post at the roundabout.
“All I asked, was their assistance (witnessed by Mrs Ilori) in getting some barricades off the road for us to park properly and this scenario I have just described, turned into a full blown fiasco, seeing four police officers pounce on me and two others on Mrs Ilori and her niece.
“I have come off this incident with stitches in my mouth and chin. Mrs Ilori as well, to the full glare and amazement of pedestrians and moving traffic, was ruffled up, beat, and dragged on the tarred ground.”
Okeke identified one of the officers as Ideh Donatus. He said Donatus severally pointed a gun at his chest.
The thespian calls for justice.
“Myself, Mrs Ilori, her niece and every other Nigerian citizen, don’t need to feel vulnerable with the police. We appreciate them for their efforts in Protecting Lives and Property, but not for them to be THE THREAT!” he said.
Okeke’s experience at the hands of the officers is sadly one of numerous incidents of maltreatment of innocent citizens by police operatives in the country.
