The police have arrested the officers who were seen in a viral video assaulting an unidentified man in Rivers State.
The spokesperson for the Force Headquarters, Muyiwa Adejobi, disclosed this in a Twitter post on Monday.
According to Adejobi’s post, the number of officers who were involved in the assault are three.
“These men have been arrested, and their commander will personally bring (them) to the Force Headquarters tomorrow Tuesday for further actions. They are 3 in number, attached to RRS, Rivers State,” Mr Adejobi wrote.
He did not, however, mention the officers’ names and their ranks.
He condemned the officers’ action. “It is barbaric and does not portray the police in a good light at all.”
“I wonder how a man, a reasonable man, would be flogging or slapping a grown-up man in that manner,” the spokesperson added.
In the clip which has been circulating on Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp, one of the officers, armed with an AK-47 rifle, is seen slapping the motorist after beating him with a cane.
Police arrest officers for assaulting motorist in Rivers pic.twitter.com/unId2REVOx
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Another officer was also filmed shoving a woman, said to be the man’s wife, into a car.
The Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, Okon Effiong, earlier on Monday ordered the arrest of the officers, and promised to get them sanctioned for their action.
