Police Officers attached to the Ogwashi-Uku division have been caught on camera assaulting the President of the Delta State Polytechnics, Ogwashi-Uku Student Union Government (SUG).
In a video of the incident now trending, the SUG President who recorded the incident alleged that the officers slapped him, threatened to shoot him, and eventually shot at his vehicle because he refused to give them N500 bribe.
According to him, the police officers stopped him and demanded N500 but when he refused, they slapped him and assaulted him.
In the video, the SUG President while recording the video approached the officers in rage over the slap, saying, “You slapped me because I refused to settle you. You will see what you have never seen in your life before.
“Ogwashi-Uku divisional police slapped me, SUG president, because I refused to settle them in my vehicle… because I refused to give him N500.”
While the officers pushed him back and ran into their operational vehicle and drove off, he ran after them, shouting, “They are running inside the bush, look at them, criminals. They are threatening to shoot me, SUG president.
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“Look at you, criminals. The whole world is going to see you,” he said as a policeman stepped out of the vehicle and fired a shot in the air.”
The SUG President shouted, “They are shooting at us. They are shooting at my vehicle.”
In response to the allegations, the command’s spokesperson, SP Edafe Bright, acknowledged that an investigation into the incident had been launched and added that the officer accused of assaulting the SUG president had been detained.
Edafe wrote on X.com on Monday, “While we are looking into this incident, his allegations of them asking for #500 remains an allegation and we are looking into it. He said they hit him, that’s also wrong and the officer is presently detained. The SUG president alleged that he was slapped, that is also being looked into.”
The PPRO, however, stated that the conduct of the SUG president in calling the police “criminals” and “thieves” should not be encouraged, particularly because the officers were deployed to the area due to ongoing kidnapping concerns.
Edafe wrote, “We should not encourage the behaviour of the SUG president being so hostile to policemen deployed because of the kidnapping complaints in that area.
“Calling policemen on their lawful duty criminals and thieves is wrong. He called the police criminals and thief even after they had left him. This too should be discouraged. The command is looking into the incident, the police shooting was wrong.”
