.. allegation not true - Police

Elo Edremoda, Warri


Mercy Okoro bearing marks of the alleged assaults from the DPO

A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Delta state, SP Asanayin Ibok, allegedly beat up and stripped two sisters, Mercy, 28 and 19-year-old Lucy Okoro, naked over a landlord/tenancy dispute in Warri on Friday.

SP Ibok who heads the Ekpan Police Division in Uvwie council area of the state was said to have arrested the duo and their widowed mother, Mrs. Lucy Okoro, afterwards.

Speaking with newsmen on Monday, the 28-year-old claimed that one of their tenants, Andrew Obas, had invited the police to their home.

She said he (Obas) was owing her family three months rent and they had given him until the fourth month after which his failure to pay, forced them to issue him quit notice.

“We gave him four months which elapsed this January, but he refused to pay. We asked him to pack out, instead, he brought armed Policemen.

“They shot sporadically, came to our house and carried my sister, dragging her on the floor and kicking her. I held the Policeman asking him to let my sister go. But the Policeman (DPO) stripped me naked. He pulled the wrapper from my neck, dragged me on the floor and kicked my buttocks.

“They bundled my sister and I into their patrol van and took us to the Police Station. I never knew it was the DPO at first. He asked if we were the people causing ‘wahala’? So I asked my mother to join us in the cell. That was when he slapped me until I fell on the ground and fainted

“The Policewoman at the counter sprayed teargas into my eyes. I thought I was already blind. At night, he (DPO) and some men came and rained abuses on me,” Mercy recounted in Pidgin.

She further appealed to the Nigerian government, human rights organization, as well as the international community to take up the matter and ensure “justice” is served.

Adding her voice to her daughter’s call for justice, the widow called on government and well-meaning individuals to come to their aid and expose the oppressive act of the Police.

Meanwhile, the National Chairman of Human Rights Defenders Organization, Sir. Casely Omon-Irabor (Esq.), disclosed that the establishment was contacted on the issue.

“We sent two of our lawyers to go and find out and we discovered that the Police stripped the first daughter of the widow naked. Our lawyers tried to intervene but they didn’t listen to him,” Omon-Irabor stated, adding that it was when “I told him that I have him on photographs and video” that he pushed for settlement.

When contacted, the Ekpan Divisional Police Officer, SP Ibok Asanenyi denied the allegations levelled against him saying, “It is not true.”

He said he was not around when the incident occurred, let alone stripping the girl naked.

On his part, the Delta State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hafiz Inuwa said, the allegation was a “blatant lie”.

“As I am speaking with you, this is the second time a journalist is calling me. He wanted to reach me because of what one human rights person alleged.

“But when he could not get me, he just made his enquiry and discovered that it is not even true because the DPO even told him that he was not there at the station when the matter was reported.

“Some of these things, what you need to do is that you first contact the person that the allegation was made against. As I am talking to you now, we did not record anything like this,” CP Inuwa stated.

https://thenationonlineng.net/dpo-allegedly-beats-strips-sisters-naked-arrests-mother-in-delta/

He just wanted to have a test of what jail feels like. Please get him behind Bars.

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PIX OR I DON'T BELIEVE IT

What do you expect when security uniform makes people to feel like gods in Nigeria.

We're too cruel as a people.

I'm not surprised the DPO denied that he did such thing. Naija police force and lies are like bread and butter.

And nobody could take a good picture as evidence to this attack? Anyway I will hand this case over to picture lovers in Nairaland (PLN) hit like if you are a member of PLN

BeeBeeOoh:
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don't mind him....they are the ones that will talk/take action before thinking

Obascoetubi:
PIX OR I DON'T BELIEVE IT

the pics is there for you to see...

Islie:


the pics is there for you to see...

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Charge the useless DPO with assault and battery.
Imagine what they do to people for owing three months.
It's also obvious the victim no get money to pay, dem beat you on top payment, u dey find NGO and human rights upandan.

Violence Against Women Must Stop Biko

Promiscuous DPO

Wahala has happened in Delta o.

Hmmm

Do that to any of mines and that’s the last thing you ever do.

There's no crime that warrants stripping a woman naked. For her crimes, charge her to court and let justice take its course.

This is inhumanity and brazen madness of the NPF

Many Nairalanders have formed the habit of commenting out of emotions instead judging the situation in the right process.


We also need to listen to the DPO's side of the story.

The OP is just one sided without stating what led to the scene.


This is 2020, Let us make a change on the way we see things, the way we judge and comment.


Yesterday, a NEPA staff was about to disconnect a woman's wire because she hasn't paid her bills. The woman kept abusing and raining insult on the NEPA staff.

If this NEPA staff slapped her, I still know many reports would still hid the first part in their pocket and publisize the action's part.


The DPO's actions as stated by the OP is very wrong, but we need to know what caused the fight and the full story.

His village people (media) have called on his head

DonFreshmoney:
Olosho daughters.. why trying wrapper during the day? Just say you wanted the policemen Dck and stop blaming him.. is only in Africa that young ladies were wrapper all through the day? Even if you wore wrapper, you ddnt put on common pant.. if to say you ladies were on Jean's or trousers, it wont have happened.

Next time you na go get sense
Ashawo

Go and take your drugs.

Hmm...I ain't saying I don't believe them, but what would make the police just come and be so aggressive like that just because landlord ASKED tenant to move out? The story is incomplete.

Na wah o. Police brutality everywhere

Crazy how a senior officer doesn't even know where his own rights/ power starts or ends.



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Why should the Nigeria police be involved in every shameful and dehumanizing acts? Too much lack of civility and decorum in their conducts.

This your story no complete, madam!

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DonFreshmoney:
Olosho daughters.. why trying wrapper during the day? Just say you wanted the policemen Dck and stop blaming him.. is only in Africa that young ladies were wrapper all through the day? Even if you wore wrapper, you ddnt put on common pant.. if to say you ladies were on Jean's or trousers, it wont have happened.

Next time you na go get sense
Ashawo

Both you and the police men

Are bloody sai barber parasites

DonFreshmoney:
Olosho daughters.. why trying wrapper during the day? Just say you wanted the policemen Dck and stop blaming him.. is only in Africa that young ladies were wrapper all through the day? Even if you wore wrapper, you ddnt put on common pant.. if to say you ladies were on Jean's or trousers, it wont have happened.

Next time you na go get sense
Ashawo

What if they were your sisters? When did tying wrapper in one's house become a crime? Do not support evil, it comes to the abode of those who supports it.