Woman petitions IG over alleged police

A Delta State-based businesswoman,
Mrs Joy Ekere, who said she was beaten and
locked up with her five-month-old baby by six
policemen attached to Oleh Police Station, in
Delta State, has petitioned the Inspector
General of Police, IG, Mr. Ibrahim Idris.
She appealed to the Police boss to set up an
independent committee to investigate the
allegations.
Mr. Ibrahim Idris beaming with smiles
following his confirmation as the substantive
IGP by the Council of State on Wednesday,
September 7, 2016.
In a petition by her Benin-based lawyer, Mr.
Dele Igbinedion, she lamented that she was
beaten by the policemen, lamenting that the
earlier committee set up by the IG, which was
under the AIG Zone 5, Benin, may not do
justice to the matter due to bias.
The petitioner said: “The decision by the IG to
instruct the AIG Zone 5 to look into the same
matter over which he (AIG) had sat for so long
before we petitioned the IG would be, to say
the least, totally unproductive. It would not
achieve any tangible result.
“We request for an independent team of police
officers unrelated to the office of the AIG
Zone 5 to investigate this matter
dispassionately.
“We are not asking for any form of
favouritism.
“All we are asking for is that the police
officers, who can use machetes on citizens,
should not be left in the Police Force before
they will kill innocent Nigerians.
“So we are appealing to the IG to set up a
different team of officers. My clients are
ready, able and willing to cooperate with a
different team of investigators.”