Unprofessional conduct of some policemen was again tested on Monday when some policemen with some boys in civil dress descended on some dispatch riders under the bridge at Ikeja, by LASUTH and beat them mercilessly.
While some beat the riders with baton, iron, sticks and other harmful things, few others shot canister tear gas, making people to scamper for safety while some bikes were damaged in the process.
Confusion had started when an SUV Jeep hit a despatch rider at Yaba and fled. However, he was pursued by his colleagues before catching up with him at Ikeja.
According to a witness identified as Kolawole, one of the riders, explained that the rider earlier had mistakenly hit and broke the rear light of the Range Rover SUV with registration number: LSR810FU.
Instead of the car owner to ask for repairs or compensation, he further narrated, he rather hit the despatch rider with his car, leading to serious bruises on his right hand and back after falling to the ground.
“Immediately, he zoomed off which prompted other riders to give him a prolonged chase until they were able to block him at Ikeja.
“However, the car owner was compelled to treat the despatch rider due to the severity of injury sustained.
He later agreed while the bike was taken into the boot of his vehicle and the injured rider sat in the car, ostensibly to take him to hospital for medical care.
“Surprisingly, he sped past both hospital and chemist shop where he could have been treated. Sensing that he wanted to run away despite the injured rider being inside his car, other riders had to chase him again and blocked him under Bridge, very close to General Hospital, Ikeja and prevented him from moving further.
The policemen and LASTMA Officers under the bridge had to intervene.
Unfortunately, a police patrol vehicle, Vanagon bus suddenly appeared with policemen from under the bridge and they started shooting tear gas without bothering to ask what had transpired.
The Info Page News who watched the scenario unfolded noticed some guys in mufty with some police officers jumped at the riders and started beating and hitting them with big sticks, rods, baseball bat and other harmful things.
In the process, some of the riders were forcefully arrested and some bikes were broken by the police officers and the boys.
The Info Page News reports that the policemen who carried out this act never asked any question before engaging in such unprofessional display, an act that left onlookers bewildered.
One of the onlookers that spoke anonymously to our correspondent said “Police are supposed to make peace not to add more injury to already bad situation.
If this is how policing job is carried out, we have not started.
You can see the pains they caused fellow citizens,” he asked.
