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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