CITY NEWS Police brutalise couple in Daki Biyu
Two Policemen at Daki Biyu police outpost, under Life Camp Police Division, have allegedly brutalised a couple and threatened to kill the husband over his wife’s indecent dressing.
The incident happened last Sunday at about 8:30am when the said couple went out within the neighbourhood at Daki Biyu, a slum in Jabi District, to buy akara (bean cake) for breakfast before going to church.
Obaji Ifeanyi told City News that his wife was humiliated in his presence by the police as they forced her to pull her dress up to unreasonable level before taking her photograph after caressing her breasts and buttocks.
He said that trouble started when one of the policemen sent a civilian to call his wife and he told her not to go. He said that one of the policeman came and insisted that his wife must go with him to the station.
“We were buying akara and two policemen passed us and I greeted them but they went close to the station and send somebody to call my wife,” he said.
“When the person came, I asked him who was calling her? It was then that the policeman came and said she should follow him to the station to explain her reason to his oga.”
Obaji said that when he demanded to know why his wife was invited to the station, the police man said she was indecently dressed.
He said that after arguing with the policeman, telling him that he had no right to accuse his wife of dressing indecently, the policeman forced them to the station where they were brutalised and his wife humiliated.
“I said this is my wife and I know that what she has worn is not wrong since no part of her body is showing but they dragged my wife to the cell and forced me to lie face down on the floor and they started hitting me with the baton.”
He said that he couldn’t walk when they released because of the injuries he sustained.
“A policemen at the station later said that I should thank God he was not there when they were beating me, that he would have killed me,” he said.
When the victim visited the Abuja office of the Daily Trust, Tuesday, he was seen with wounds on his head, hands, legs and could barely walk.
Efforts to get the reaction of the Life Camp Divisional Police Officer proved abortive. When our reporter contacted the FCT command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), ASP Anjuguri Manzah, he said he was not informed about the incident.
However City News learnt the case was earlier reported at the FCT police command before it was referred to Life camp police division for investigation.