The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Edgal Imohimi, on Monday denied claims by musician Reward Ugbede Adejo, popularly typically often typically known as Praiz that he was harassed by the Policemen on accountability.
The musician had alleged on his instagram internet web internet web page on the 23rd of December with an hashtag #Endsars that he was harassed by males of the Lagos State Police command on his methodology to 3XM Music end of the 12 months celebration and was taken to the Ajah police Station.
Nonetheless the Lagos CP, Imohimi in an announcement by the command’s spokesperson, SP Chike Oti talked regarding the musician was resorting to low-cost blackmail on social media.
“on Dec. 19, at 12midnight, policemen linked to House ‘J’ Command Headquarters, Ajah, Lagos, who've been on routine, anti-crime patrol alongside the Lekki/Epe expressway, seen a automotive at excessive tempo approaching their end”.
“The policemen sensed that the tempo was tons and so have been alarmed, ensuing from this actuality they flagged down the automotive to confirm on the occupants and if necessary, search the trunk of the automotive”.
“When the automotive stopped, the officers who've been of their uniforms, approached the driving vitality nonetheless to their disbelief, the driving vitality, who was nonetheless to be addressed by the policemen turned hysterical, with out provocation and started shouting “SARS, SARS, SARS… OOO’’.
“As he was shouting and pouring unprintable invectives on the officers of the regulation, he was on the identical time filming them.
“These unprovoked actions on the part of the driving vitality, whose true identification in the intervening time was unknown to the patrolmen, made them pretty additional suspicious of him they typically furthermore requested him to return with them to see the House Commander, ACP Felix Oben, whom that they'd already often typically known as to report the conduct of the individual.
“It was on the House Commander’s Office that they obtained to know that he is a musician that goes by the title `Praize’. The House Commander questioned him and instructed him to be of improbable behaviour”.
“He, thereafter, departed the police station peacefully, with none molestation in any means. The Police authority in Lagos nonetheless felt scandalised by Praize’s rudeness to the lads in uniform, who've been out to substantiate regulation, order and safety alongside the Lekki/ Epe corridor.
The CP all via the assertion additional instructed celebrities to utilise the Residents Complaints Scorching Centre (CCHC).
“It is a matter of frequent information that the Command’s Commissioner of Police, CP Edgal Imohimi, who has dismissed assorted policemen that abused their workplaces since assuming office, would not have hesitated to deal with the policemen, if that they'd erred.
“It's often instructive to note that the officers won't be SARS operatives as erroneously assumed by Praize nonetheless commonplace policemen of their uniforms, serving on the House ‘J’ Command Headquarters.
“The Lagos State Police Command ought to make use of this medium to inform every explicit individual in Lagos State, that the present CP had on assumption of office handle the CCHC with devoted traces, the place complaints in opposition to police actions shall be lodged for necessary movement as an alternative of resorting to low-cost social media blackmail”.
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