The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has waded into an alleged assault case on woman Inspector Olorunsogo Bamidele by her DCO in Ode Omu, Osun State.
Consequently, Baba has directed the Commissioner of Police, Osun State, CP Olaleye Faleye, to investigate the alleged assault.
In a trending video, the female police officer accused her attacker who she gave his name as Ajayi Mathew of stripping her naked and beating her up because she refused to give in to his advances.
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A statement released by the spokesperson of the Nigeria Police Force, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, reads in part ”We will await the report of the investigation from Osun State Police Command before necessary actions are taken.
‘‘However, we assure the general public that justice will be done in the case, to protect the core values and ethics of the NPF.”
Police Inspector Bamidele, serving at the Nigeria Police Force, Osun State command, and attached to the Ode-Omu Divisional headquarters, cried out for justice after she was allegedly physically assaulted and brutalised by her senior colleague, ASP Ajayi Mathew.
In a video making the rounds on the internet, where Inspector Bamidele appeared with cuts and bruises all over her body with her torn police uniform, she accused the senior colleague, ASP Matthew of sexual harassment.
Amid tears in the video, the policewoman narrated her ordeal in the incident that happened on Tuesday, adding that ASP Mathew, also the Divisional Crime Officer, had been making love advances at her but she refused as she told him that she was married and could not engage in any love affair with him.
According to her, rather than letting her be, he has been using his position to intimidate and harass, blackmail and threaten to sack her if she refuses to accept his love advance.
Inspector Bamidele said, “He started beating me, to the extent that he naked (sic) me. Look at my chest, my hands, everywhere injured. Mr. Ajayi Mathew.”
When asked why the senior colleague assaulted her, she said, “I don’t know because he asked me out, that I should befriend him. I said no, I’m a married woman. I cannot befriend you. He started blackmailing me; saying he is the one befriending me, which is not true.
“My right hand was there. Two Constables and 10 civilians; after doing that, he went inside and carried a dane gun and said he wanted to gun me down. The civilians had to take me out of the office and said I should run away but I said no. If he wants to kill me, he should kill me.
“Help me. Assist me. Ajayi wants to kill me. Ode-Omu Division,” she cried out.
