- By Kamil Opeyemi
Amidst allegations of police highhandedness, a video surfaces of a brutal attack on a citizen in Lagos with officers hitting a bike rider with a rod.
A yet to be identified bike man has been brutalised by policemen in the Abule Egba area, a suburb of Lagos state.
It was not clear what led to the attack on the bike rider, a video seen by the NPO Reports which was recorded apparently by an eye witness, showed the rider, a young man, being rough-handled by some of the policemen. He was seen hit with blood gushing out of his forehead.
It was clear from the video that the policemen had apprehended him for an unknown offence. He was to be dispossessed of his motorcycle but the rider appeared to have resisted the arrest.
In the process, one of the policemen was seen struggling to prevent him from getting to the others who had taken possession of his bike. While he freed himself from the grip of one of the officers, the rider seen struggling to take back his bike. In the process, one of the officers hit him with a rod he was holding injuring him in the head.
In the video, the officers were seen going away in a tricycle while the bike rider made attempt to chase them.