The brutality meted on the victim was captured in a video which has been circulating on social media.
By Ife Osemedua
365Daily – Locals in Ekpoma, Edo State, have attacked a police vehicle after it ran over a man in handcuffs and dragged him on the road for refusing to hand over his phone to them.
The brutality meted on the victim was captured in a video which has been circulating on social media. It was shared by Rinu Oduala, a human rights activist on Friday.
In the video, the man was seen on the ground in the middle of a road in Ekpoma, as policemen in a blue unmarked bus it in motion and ran him over.
Reacting to the move by the police, passerbys and other people who had gathered began to shout in protest, then ran after the car to forcefully stop it from dragging the victim further down the road.
Other people pelted the car with stones and sticks, forcing the policeman who was driving to stop and run away from the angry crowd. However, the cuffed man remained under the vehicle.
The remaining policemen began to shoot in the air, as though to dispel the irate crowd which resisted them, dragged the policemen out of the vehicle and beat them up.
Reacting to the incident, Muyiwa Adejobi, Force Public Relations Officer, via a tweet on Thursday night, said, “This is unpolice[sic]. I don’t think a normal human being can do this. To crush a man with a car? This is unbelievable. I have personally contacted the CP Edo on this. We need to take urgent action on this matter. It’s strange to me as a person.”