CITY NEWS How 4 policemen saulted me over N50 debt – Driver
Four policemen attached to the Abaji Area Council divisional police headquarters were last week accused of allegedly assaulting and inflicting injuries on a driver, Angulu Umar, at Anguwar Gbakiya in the area.
Umar, who sustained injuries on his head, chest and hands, while narrating the incident from his hospital bed at Abaji General Hospital, alleged that the four plane cloth policemen attacked him for owing a woman N50.
He said he was walking along the street when a woman, who sold bean cake, stopped and asked him to pay her N50 he owed her, saying it was while he was pleading with the woman that the officers sitting at a beer palour allegedly accosted him.
According to him, the woman who was sitting with the officers reported him to them, alleging further that the officers stood up and shoved him into a private vehicle and drove to the police station.
He said: “Before I realised what was happening, the four policemen approached and asked me to enter their car which I refused and you know, they bundled me inside the boot and drove me to the police station after hitting me with sticks and on our arrival at the station, one of the officers brought out a wheel spanner and hit me with it on my head,” Umar alleged.
He alleged that the policemen then abandoned him bleeding in front of the police station, adding that when the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) came and saw him, he was very angry and directed officers to convey him to the hospital.
“The police officers pushed me out of the gate and abandoned me despite the DPO’s directive, until when my master later came with his car and conveyed me to the hospital,” he alleged.
Our reporter reliably learnt that the Ona of Abaji, Alhaji Adamu Baba Yunusa, who later got wind of the incident, was angry, a situation, which prompted him to immediately summon the DPO to the his palace.
Effort to get reaction of the Divisional Police Officer (DPO), Mr. Ogungbemi Igekele, was not successful but another officer at the division confirmed the incident, saying the matter was under investigation.
FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent Anjuguri Manzah, said the command would investigate the incident, adding that any erring officer in connection with the incident would be dealt with accordingly.