LADY WHO ACCUSED POLICE OFFICER OF STABBING HER FATHER IN EKITI, SAYS ‘HE’S STILL WALKING FREELY’

In one of the clips with her dad at 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. An argument led to an argument. The girl angrily went on to call her boyfriend so that he would come and fight my kid brother at home. But when they got home, they did not meet my kid brother. They only met his elder brother.

“They started questioning the elder brother. They asked him to follow them to the police station that they want to arrest him. It was only one of them that went inside first.

“And he started challenging them saying what did I do? Why are you taking me to the station? What is my offence? Then the guy started rushing him. He started hitting him. He started blowing him.

“Then he (her elder brother) started calling on my dad to come out because my dad was not in the room with him. He started calling my dad to come out that some guys were hitting him. My dad coming out to come and separate them and ask what is going on. Why are you hitting my son?

“As we speak to you right now, this person who actually stabbed my dad is a police officer who works here. He is a police officer here in Ise Orun district. This is my dad. This is his belly. This thing happened yesterday.”

She expressed her displeasure that despite the severity of the incident, the officer remains unarrested, with authorities citing procedural protocols.

She added, “And as we speak right now, both the guy that went to call the police officer, and the two police officers, they are still roaming about freely and nothing is happening.

“They are doing absolutely nothing because they said he is a police officer, they don’t just arrest a police officer like that.

“So, I think this guy has been doing this to everybody. My dad is not the first person. Everybody is complaining about this guy and he’s still working. He’s still in service. What is going on? This guy has been doing this thing and because he’s a chairman orderly, they left him there and they said there is a procedure.”

She argued that if the roles were reversed, the outcome would likely be different, saying, “There is a procedure before they will detain that man. There is a procedure before they will dismiss him. But if it’s a normal person like me now that did that, by now I’ll be in jail and nothing is happening.

“I do not understand why a police officer should be stabbing a civilian. So police carry knife up and down, as per cultist. They say that the police is our friend, right? I do not understand. I still do not get it. I cannot fathom till now why a police officer should be moving around with such a weapon, just to be stabbing and killing innocent civilians.”

In another clip she made at the station, the lady was heard saying while filming an officer, “Go back to the street that you are and join that cultist. You are not meant to be a police and I’ll make sure they dismiss you. I have the right to talk. I’ll make sure they dismiss you.

“If at the end of the day, nothing happens, your face will be posted everywhere on the internet. And I’ll make sure you get dismissed. Murderer!

“It’s the chairman that is on his back. He’s a chairman’s orderly. He’s smiling. He doesn’t feel any remorse. He went home to go and stab my dad yesterday, and he’s still walking, still free. And he’s still smiling.

“They are telling us that there is a procedure. Nigeria Police Ise Osun Division. They say nothing will happen. We are strangers, and they are going to treat us like strangers that we are. That nothing is going to happen. I will not keep quiet.”

While filming a separate video at the apartment where the incident happened, she said, “A police officer did this in this apartment as you guys can see. A police officer with another police officer, there were two. They came into my father’s apartment to do this.

“They came here to actually kill him, but fortunately they did not succeed. Look at what they did to my dad. Look at what a policeman did to my dad without him committing any crime. He did not steal from anybody. He did not kill anybody. He did absolutely nothing. But they did this to him, all because two people had an argument.

“My dad almost lost his life yesterday. How can a police officer be stabbing someone, like a police officer is stabbing a civilian? The police is really our friend. Let’s see how it’s going to end. This country don go because I don’t understand.”

She appealed to higher authorities, including the President and Commissioner of Police, to intervene and ensure justice is served.

“Please, Mr. President, please. Commissioner of Police, please. Every effort, at this point, please, we need your help. Please come through for us and serve justice.

“Please, come to our aid. Everybody, help me and tag the Commissioner of Police. They should do something about this because this cannot keep happening. I don’t know what this country is turning into. This is really unfair. Nigeria is failing us for real. You people should do something about this,” she said.

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