The Imo State Commissioner of Police, Aboki Danjuma, has ordered the arrest of policemen seen in a viral video assaulting nursing mother, Mrs Ogechi Eze.
A video that went viral had a woman and her children allegedly being assaulted by policemen from the Tiger Base of the state police command.
The command’s spokesperson, Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday.
The statement read, “The Imo State Police Command is not unaware of a video making the rounds on social media, in which a nursing mother who identified herself as Mrs. Ogechi Eze, alleged that she and her children were assaulted by operatives of the Command’s Anti kidnapping unit, (Tiger Base) as their operational call-sign and is currently carrying out a comprehensive investigation to ascertain the remote facts of the case.
“Accordingly, the Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, CP Aboki Danjuma, has ordered the immediate arrest and detention of the alleged officers and tasked the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the command’s X-Squad and Provost to ensure that the alleged officers are sanctioned in accordance with the Force’s extant laws if found culpable.
“The command, therefore, encourages Mrs Ogechi to report at the Police Public Relations Department, Command Headquarters, Owerri, to assist in identifying the officers in the ongoing investigation.
The statement read, “The Imo State Police Command is not unaware of a video making the rounds on social media, in which a nursing mother who identified herself as Mrs. Ogechi Eze, alleged that she and her children were assaulted by operatives of the Command’s Anti kidnapping unit, (Tiger Base) as their operational call-sign and is currently carrying out a comprehensive investigation to ascertain the remote facts of the case.
“Accordingly, the Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, CP Aboki Danjuma, has ordered the immediate arrest and detention of the alleged officers and tasked the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the command’s X-Squad and Provost to ensure that the alleged officers are sanctioned in accordance with the Force’s extant laws if found culpable.
“The command, therefore, encourages Mrs Ogechi to report at the Police Public Relations Department, Command Headquarters, Owerri, to assist in identifying the officers in the ongoing investigation.
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