Some policemen reportedly
took the enforcement of the Lagos Traffic Law to the extreme on Wednesday as
they allegedly beat an unidentified okada rider and stripped him in
Akoka, Lagos.
An eyewitness, who pleaded
anonymity, said the victim was caught while riding at the junction of University Road and St. Finbarr’s College Road in Akoka.
He stated that the man was
plying the route oblivious that plain-clothes policemen had laid ambush in a
van with registration number NPF9544B, in the area.
The eyewitness said
immediately the policemen saw the okada rider, they pounced on him, beat him up
and later asked him to take all his clothes off.
Recently, PUNCH Metro reported
that an okada rider died after he was hit with a baton by a policeman
who insisted the victim violated the traffic law at Agege area of Lagos.
A month earlier, it was also
reported that a driver of the state ambulance service, died after a policemen
allegedly hit him in the head at Surulere area of Lagos for plying a road that has
been designated as out of bound to commercial motorcycles.
When contacted on Thursday,
the police spokesperson in the state, Ngozi Braide, neither picked her call nor
responded to a text message sent to her phone.
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