KANO RADIO STATION DECRIES POLICE ASSUALT ON EMPLOYEE
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DAMILOLA LAWRENCE
Premier Radio, Kano, condemned on Tuesday the brutal attack on its employee, Muhammad Bello Dabai, who was performing his duties in front of the radio station on Monday afternoon.
Meanwhile, the unfortunate incident occurred around 3.30 p.m., when Dabai’s attention was drawn to a fleeing thief being pursued by members of the public as he attempted to flee Nassarawa Hospital, where the police had taken him for treatment.
As members of the public pursued him and hit him with stones, the thief collapsed in front of the station in Dabai’s presence, and the police officer at the station requested assistance from the Area Command.
On arrival of police officers to re-arrest the culprit, Dabai was busy capturing the incident on camera as a journalist for his news beat. A press statement by the radio news manager, Mukhtar Usman, revealed that he was caught red-handed filming the incident.
The statement reads further “To his utmost surprise, without any provocation, one of the police officers confronted him to stop him, during which a fracas ensued.
“Despite identifying himself, with his ID card, as a journalist, Mr Dabai was forcefully manhandled by the policeman, who bundled him into their service vehicle, insisting that they must take him to the police station for interrogation and detention.
“In the process, Mr Dabai was brutalised, kicked, and slapped severally on their way to the police station and forced to lie on the vehicle floor.
“When Premier Radio urgently reported the incident to the Area Commander of the Metro Police Command to secure the release of Mr. Dabai, the Area commander rebuked his officers for their high-handedness.
“It was, however, noticed that the recalcitrant police officers were not only unrepentant but unapologetic.
“To this extent, we hereby demand justifiable sanction against the unrepentant and brutal officers, including an unconditional apology without which we are at liberty to seek legal redress.”
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