The Lagos State Police Command says it has launched an investigation into a police officer captured in a viral video while attempting to arrest a bus conductor in the Ikorodu area of the state.
The officer appears to hold the conductor’s groin area tightly, while passengers intervene, shouting pleas like “Leave this boy,” and the conductor shouts, “Police, don kill me.”
Some bystanders condemn the officer’s actions, with one passenger seemingly pushing him away.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Adebisi, said the incident stemmed from an operation in which officers and personnel of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority were allegedly obstructed by a commercial bus driver and his conductor.
According to the command, the driver had “deliberately used the bus to obstruct traffic flow and thereby prevented other road users from using the public way and also caused traffic gridlock in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State, causing serious untold hardship to the public.
“It was in the process of arresting the conductor that he stripped himself to evade arrest and escape from the scene, and that was when the video was shot.”
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