A lawyer has been battered by policemen attached
to a police station in the ‘A’ Division of the Delta State Police Command in
Warri for defending his client.
Trouble started when Oyabevwe found out that his
client and his wife had been forcefully arrested by the EFCC officials from
Magistrate Court II and taken to the division.
The lawyer was said to have gone to the division
to ascertain why his clients were arrested. The assault was said to have been
carried out by over ten policemen who were alleged to have used their guns to
hit the victim’s eyes.
Oyabevwe, who confirmed the attack on him,
accused the Divisional Police Officer of the station, Kenneth Zuokumor, a Chief
Superintendent of Police, of being behind his attack, saying that he lost
mobile set and N50,000 cash in his pocket.
He stated that he was charged to court at the end
of the melee in his bleeding condition on three count-charge of obstructing
justice, threat to peace and attacking the station.
Meanwhile, the Warri branch of NBA has called on
the Inspector-General of Police and the Police Service Commission to
immediately probe the assault by police on its member.
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