Lagos police reacts to viral video of its officers being assaulted

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Lagos police reacts to viral video of its officers being assaulted after they were accused of stealing phones in computer village (video)







The Lagos state police command has reacted to the viral video of two mobile police officers who were accused of stealing phones from a shop at Computer village on Friday, March 12.
 
Spokesperson of the state police command, Ademuyiwa Adejobi in a statement released today March 16, said the officers were wrongfully accused of committing a crime. He said the people who made the viral video painted the incident mischievously in a bad light with an attempt to ridicule the entire Nigeria Police Force as the policemen never went to buy phones, neither were they caught in any act of theft in the computer village.
 
Giving an account of what transpired, Adejobi said
 

The HP Electronics Company's Taskforce on piracy, in company of some police operatives, were at the shop located at No 30, Awolowo Road, Opposite Glass House, Ikeja, Lagos, on a routine operation against piracy and sub-standard products in the market when some hoodlums suddenly became violent and attacked the team.

They went ahead by creating a scene, calling them thieves and passing  uncomplementary comments on the policemen in order to distract and halt the anti-piracy operation.


The team was chased away by the hoodlums and did not allow the operation to succeed due to their criminal tendencies.'


Without mincing words, the Lagos State Police command wishes to clear the air and disabuse the minds of the general public that the policemen captured in the video are not thieves but operatives on official and legal operation at the computer village contrary to the wrong impression painted by the originators of the fake video on the social media.

 
Adejobi said the state Commissioner of Police, CP Hakeem Odumosu has ordered the State Criminal Investigation Department to investigate the theft allegation and attacks on the policemen and team which would be the third of its kind in recent time in the same computer village; noting that the command will not tolerate any act of criminality and lawlessness in any part of the state. 
 

''While commending the act of professionalism and maturity of the policemen and team to avert chaos in the area, CP Hakeem Odumosu warns the general public to desist from launching attacks on the police and other security agents, either on official duty or off duty, and peddling fake news as such would be a dent on our national integrity and honour which we all guide jealously.'' Adejobi added

 
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Lagos Police Identifies Man Who Sexually Harrassed A Woman Inside A Public Car

FLASH: The Lagos State Police Command wishes to inform the general public that the man allegedly caught in the viral video where a lady vidoed and accused him of masturbating in a commercial vehicle on 13th March, 2021 has been identified (Not a police officer)

The man, simply identified as Mr Matthew, who assaulted the lady, one Olajumoke Okeyemi, for correcting his actions and act of sexual harassment in a public vehicle, is a driver employed by GTC Laundry Services, along Channels TV Road, Isheri, not a police personnel as he claimed during the "drama" in the video.

Mr Matthew was in a commercial bus moving from OPIC Estate Isheri to Mowe with the lady when the suspect resorted to verbal abuse and attempted to physically assault the lady for recoding his criminal and indecent act on her phone.

But for reasons best known to the suspect, Mr Matthew, impersonated to be a police officer.

The Lagos State Police Command, in collaboration with the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team, Alausa, Ikeja, have commenced investigation into the matter and intensified efforts to arrest the suspect.

Incidentally, the suspect has also been identified by some other women who had similar experiences with the same Mr Matthew in previous years along the same route.

The concerned women have made series of comments on the social media which will assist the police in their investigation.

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu has however condemned such inhuman, immoral and criminal act of Mr Matthew who, with his careless and unguided utterances, dragged the name of the Nigeria Police Force in the mud.

He warned that such an act constituents an offence under the law and will not be tolerated.

The Commissioner of Police has ordered the Gender Unit of the Command to expedite action on the case, arrest the suspect and commence proper investigation so as to maintain sanity in our society and discourage others from engaging in such heinous act.

E-SIGNED

CSP OLUMUYIWA ADEJOBI(mnipr)
POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER
LAGOS STATE COMMAND
IKEJA-LAGOS
DATED 17TH MARCH, 2021

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