A 29-year-old photographer, Ejeh Smith, and his wife, Grace, 26, were on Wednesday last week battered by a police officer, identified as Dada Ogunsanya attached to the Ikoyi Police Division around the Lekki Roundabout. The couple were in a taxi en route to their home at Parkview Estate when they were stopped by a seven-man team, patrolling the area around 10pm.
“I was about getting the driving licence when he started flashing his torchlight on my passengers who were sitting at the back. The wife told the officer not to flash the torch on them since the inner light of the vehicle was on.
Because of what she said, the policeman asked them to come down from the cab. This started an argument. The next thing I saw was that the policeman pulled my passenger (Ejeh) by his trousers, and his wife went to plead with him to stop.
But instead, he slapped her and punched her husband. He was wearing a ring, which inflicted a deep cut on Ejeh’s face. After that, he used the butt of his gun to hit him in his eye and face. He also dragged his wife on the road,” the driver said.
Grace said the policeman, apart from slapping her, stepped on her tummy.
“If I was pregnant that night, I would have lost my pregnancy. I was only trying to pet him to leave my husband since he did not have business with us. I told him to face the cab driver and leave us alone. “The other policemen were just looking at him while he dragged me on the ground. A man riding a tricycle at the time was the one who rescued me. He said the policemen must call their Divisional Police Officer or else he would not leave the scene,” she said.
The family lawyer of the victims, Mr. Sunday Agbinya, said his office would write a petition to the Inspector General of Police to redress the wrong done to his clients.The Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, confirmed the incident.
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