The police say they have arrested the police officer caught in a video flogging an unidentified man in the street of Rivers State.
The culprit, Inspector Adejoh Siaka, was arrested alongside Inspector Friday Obaka, and Sgt. Ndiwa Kpuebari from Rivers State.
The spokesperson for the Force Headquarters, Muyiwa Adejobi, stated this in a Twitter post, Monday night.
“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 on the social media site.
He described the officers’ action as “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.
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, Mr. Okon Effiong, earlier on Monday, had ordered the arrest of the officers, pledging to sanction them for their action.
