Six police officers were caught on camera assaulting a students with machete.
The Imo State Police Command has commenced the orderly room trial of the police officers who were caught on a viral video assaulting Imo State University students with a machete in Imo State recently for refusing to open their phones to the police officers.
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The police officers are:.
1. Inspector Amadi Sunday (The Team Leader)
2. Inspector Amajuoji Charlse
3. Sgt Noachian Chinese
4. Sgt Onwuka Emmanuel
5. Cpl Nzewuodo Goodness
6. Pc Emmanuel Chmezie.
The incident occurred in Owerri, the capital of Imo State.
The video shows police officers dragging and tearing the victims’ clothes while slapping, hitting, and cutting them with a machete.
According to video taken by some residents of the area, police officers in a deep red Toyota Sienna minivan stormed the compound where the students live and began brutalising them without explaining their offences.
“See how he is cutting him with the cutlass,” one of the residents who recorded the incident said in pidgin English. What type of thing is this? Look at what the cops are doing. They broke into someone’s compound. Look at what the police are doing in Owerri. These people did nothing. They (police) storm the compound.”
The video was shared on Twitter by @ebe_tins, who stated, “These are Imo state university students who police are assaulting because they refuse to give out their phones to search.”
Imo State Police Public Relations Officer, Henry Okoye, responded to the incident by saying the state police command was aware of it and that an investigation was underway to identify the officers.
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“This is totally unacceptable, it’s not our standards,” Okoye said, urging victims of the incident to contact the state police command.
“The Imo Police Command is aware of this obscene video, and we are currently conducting an investigation to identify the team of officers.”
This is extra-legal parole, they should be sanctioned accordingly to clean the mess of this nature in the police.