A renowned legal practitioner, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo has called on the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, to without delay investigate the case of brutality, extortion, stealing and flagrant abuse of power against some officers of the Nigerian police at the Sapele Divisional Police Station in the interest of justice and image of the Police Force.
He made the call through a letter written to the Inspector-General of Police in which he drew the attention of the police boss to the nefarious acts of some trigger-happy police officers who opened fire on defenceless Nigerian citizens in Sapele metropolis in Delta State during a raid of a private property on the orders of the Divisional Police Officer.
Omirhobo said in the process of the raid, Trust Aghomi and Sunday Egbri were hit by stray bullets and were fatally wounded. Both men were rushed by their families to the hospital where they were receiving treatment. In the said raid, occupants of the said property were brutalised and one Jennifer Aghomi, a POS operator was assaulted by the said police officers who arrested her and her three-year old baby and detained them at the police station.
They seized her POS machine and the sum of N30, 000.00 cash and when she and her baby were eventually released, the police returned her POS machine to her but converted the cash, he alleged. “Based on a credible source, we are informed that one Mr. God’slove Aghomi was driving home in the company of his father when police officers stopped them and allegedly demanded bribes. Mr. God’slove refused, complaining that barely three weeks ago the same group of police officers extorted the sum of N150, 000,.00 from him because his vehicle papers were not complete and that now that he has regularised them.
“This infuriated the police officers who assaulted both men and chased them to their residence nearby by attacking everybody therein recklessly firing life bullets, he said.
Chief Omirhobo therefore, appealed to the Inspector General of Police to ensure justice is done by investigating the matter and bring any erring officer to book to serve as deterrent to others.
