The Ekiti State Police Command has announced the detainment of one of its officers for allegedly stabbing a man during an argument in Ise-Ekiti, Ise-Orun Local Government Area of the state.
A lady had gone to social media to demand justice after an officer allegedly assaulted her father with a knife at their home in Ekiti.
In the now viral video, the lady alleged that the officer attacked her father following a disagreement between her younger brother and a female classmate.
She revealed that the girl had reported the argument to her boyfriend, who in turn brought two police officers to confront her family under the guise of making an arrest.
In one of the video clips showing her father in the hospital, she said, “I’m currently in Ise. This is my dad lying helplessly in the hospital. My kid brother had an argument with a classmate. The girl angrily went to call her boyfriend to come and fight my kid brother at home. But when they got home, they didn’t meet my kid brother. They only met his elder brother.
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“They started questioning the elder brother. They asked him to follow them to the police station, saying they wanted to arrest him. One of them went inside first.
“He (the elder brother) started asking them, ‘What did I do? Why are you taking me to the station? What is my offence?’ Then the guy started rushing at him. He started hitting him. He started punching him.
“My brother began calling my dad to come out because he wasn’t in the room with him. He called out to my dad that some guys were hitting him. My dad came out to separate them and ask what was going on—why they were hitting his son.
“Then another person came from nowhere, pulled out a knife, and stabbed my dad in the belly. He stabbed my dad in the belly. Fortunately, my dad was able to use his hand to block the knife, and it tore his hand.
“As we speak, the person who actually stabbed my dad is a police officer who works here in the Ise-Orun District. This is my dad. This is his belly.”
The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abutu Sunday, however confirmed the incident and the arrest of the accused officer, in a statement on Friday, explained that the Commissioner of Police, Joseph Eribo, has directed the Criminal Investigation Department to conduct a thorough investigation into the matter.
The PPRO’s statement reads: “The officer in question has been taken into custody for investigation and other necessary actions.
“The Command is calling on everyone, especially the family members of the victim, to remain calm, as nothing short of justice will be delivered in this case as soon as possible.”
