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A 100-level student of Criminology at National Open University, Michael Bamisaye, is currently battling wounds allegedly inflicted on his head by three policemen attached to a police post around the NAHCO Bus Stop, Airport Road, Lagos State.

One of the policemen had reportedly hit him with the butt of his gun, until he ed out. They subsequently fled the scene with a parcel found on him.

Saturday Punch learnt that Bamisaye’s elder brother, Opeyemi, who lives in South Africa, had asked a friend to help deliver the parcel to him. It reportedly contained four iPhones, two Infinix phones and clothes.

Bamisaye said he had collected the package at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport from his brother’s friend, Dupe Adesina, and was at the bus stop with eight others around 11pm, waiting for a cab when the policemen approached him.

He said his plight started when the cops, one of whom he identified as Ali Makinta, demanded to know the content of the parcel and he offered them to check.

Bamisaye said, “They took offence and started shouting at me. They scared other people standing at the bus stop away. When they wanted to drag me to the station, I asked them why they were arresting me. One of them said, ‘you want to claim rights?’ They dragged me and one of them hit me with the butt of his gun until I fainted. Immediately they noticed I was bleeding in the head, they fled with the parcel, my wallet and phone.”

A Punch correspondent gathered that a soldier, Captain Meshach Akinleye, saw 28-year-old Bamisaye writhing in pains while ing along the road in his car and stopped to rescue him.

“After the soldier helped me to get my phone back at the police station, I called Dupe (Adesina) that delivered the package to me and she followed me to the station. We requested to write a statement but they didn’t listen to us. They returned it intact and told us to go. But the N50,000 in my wallet is still missing.

“Their expectation was that I would bleed to death so they could have the package. It contained four iPhones, two Infinix phones and some clothes. It had a receipt, which we showed them. Those policemen should be dismissed,” Bamisaye added.

Captain Akinleye, who spoke with our correspondent on Thursday on the telephone, described the officers’ conduct as unprofessional. He said the policemen had threatened to shoot him when he went to the station to know what transpired between them and the victim.

He said, “I had to help the man (Bamisaye) because he had already been hit with a weapon and he was bleeding. He ed out initially. What could he have done to warrant assault when he is not a criminal? It is absurd and ridiculous.

“As I was approaching the police post, the policemen shouted at me to stop and threatened to shoot if I moved further. I stopped and demanded to speak with the officer in charge.

“When they knew I am a security agent, they opened the gate for me. I asked them what the man did and they said he was rude to them. They said they asked him a question but he was nasty and called them all sorts of names. I didn’t take sides with anybody.

“I collected his phone from them and there were so many missed calls there. I took him in my car to where he boarded a taxi and paid his fare. Had it been I didn’t see him that night, he could have died because the place was quiet. What they did to him was totally unacceptable; and they need to be prosecuted.”

Adesina, who brought the parcel from South Africa, said she was dismayed by the conduct of the policemen when she went with Bamisaye to the station.

“I gave him the parcel that night. He called me around 1am and explained what happened. I hadn’t taken my bath nor eaten. I had to go to the station. The policemen said he was arguing with them and I begged them.

“They said they would have shot him in the leg. I was surprised why policemen would treat a citizen they are supposed to protect in such manner,” Adesina told Saturday Punch.

The Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, SP Dolapo Bos, promised to get back to our correspondent with comments on the incident but had not done so by the time the paper went to bed while she did not pick subsequent calls.

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Lalasticlala

hmm the lines of difference between armed robbers and Nigeria policemen at checkpoints are so blurry...

Na the second time this story go hit fp his week...

Just tire for naija police

Police and thieves, any difference

hmmmm...its evident dat Naija is a zoo wen security forces dat are supposed to protect n defend turng to robbery n assault....
Just d oda day, policemen who stormed my street to break up a protest began to burgle shops and threatened to shoot ppl who saw them in the act

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ok

Police are just wicked

no be today wey dose nuisance in black god forsaken uniform don dey mis behave...na y dem no dey end well be that

Only God will deliver us from these criminals we call security operatives in this country.

The Government sadly is doing nothing while Nigerians are being harassed on a daily basis

The other day it was an NSCDC official who handcuffed his tenant for owing him house rent.

Nigerian police ehhh

Its their normal routine.... In most cases they re heavily drunk wen dey do this.... Am speaking from experience

The police is your 'fiend'

Wonderful Police. I love you... NOT

We thank God for God

once you see police with gun better play dumb and "respect" them.

don't argue with them, this is not USA or UK oh. this is Nigeria. they kill you no case.

Mufasa27:
Na the second time this story go hit fp his week...

people need to see this and be aware.

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BEWARE OF NIGERIAN POLICE

thank God the poor boy did not die. God bless the captain that came to his rescue. As for the police that did that, nemesis would surely find you. Nuff said

Those policemen deserve to be fried alive in deep red oil. Deep frying...

One of the reasons a friend of mine have a terrible loathing for the police. Armed robbers in uniform.

He is lucky he didn't bleed to death , those police robbers for don sell the iPhone sincee share the money .

No difference at all, dey are all criminals useless set of pople

XXLDICK:
Police and thieves, any difference

If he had die now, then we will think is ritualist not knowing is our all mighty police officer. May God help and bless Nigeria.

If the poor dude had died that's how they will brand him a robber.

YesNo:


people need to see this and be aware.

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BEWARE OF NIGERIAN POLICE

Bros, no matter how many times this story hit fp, it would never change anything, NPF have been like this before the first coming of christ

Accidentally discharge.... That is always police response

With stories like this, i have so much hatred for the Nigerian police.

Mufasa27:

Bros, no matter how many times this story hit fp, it would never change anything, NPF have been like this before the first coming of christ

i hear say na 100 pieces of silver Judas suppose to collect but Nigerian Police collect 70 pieces inside and forced Judas to write false statement saying it was 30 pieces.

i said it b4
naija police
anytin u say or do to them esp in lag.
its either u r beaten up
locked up
killed
brutalized