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Tortured Uber driver replies Lagos CP, demands rogue cops’ arrest, N500m

Davies Ngere Ify by Davies Ngere Ify
October 26, 2021
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Dedotun Clement, the Uber driver who was tortured by security agents who used tear gas canisters to disperse demonstrators at the #EndSARS memorial at the Lekki tollgate in Lagos State, has requested that the officers who abused him be arrested and prosecuted.

This was in response to state Commissioner of Police Hakeem Odumosu’s assertion that the police could not take action in his case because no official complaint had been filed.

Clement, through his lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, wrote to the commissioner on Monday, claiming that the attack on him was a violation of the Police Act 2020.

While urging Odumosu to take action to remedy the violation of his rights “as guaranteed by Section 34 and 35 of the Constitution,” the victim demanded that disciplinary measures should be taken against the policemen.

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The petition read in part, “Our attention has been drawn to a statement credited to you as reported in The PUNCH Newspaper of Monday, October 25, 2021, in which you stated that you cannot take disciplinary actions against the police officers who tortured and pepper-sprayed our client because no formal complaint has been filed by our client.

“Since the assault was perpetrated publicly with video evidence in public circulation and widely reported, we expected that you would initiate disciplinary action based on the undisputed facts and evidence available to you. But since you have demanded a formal complaint, please take this petition as a formal complaint on behalf of our client.

“It is the brief of our client that on Wednesday, October 20, 2021, he was conveying a passenger to the Lagos Mainland, and on getting to the Lekki Toll Gate, he encountered traffic gridlock caused by the peaceful memorial protest in commemoration of the first anniversary of the #EndSARS protest.”

He stated that while Clement was waiting to pass the tollgate, pandemonium ensued after the police and the Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps descended on protesters and fired tear gas canisters indiscriminately in order to disperse them.

“Following the pandemonium, coupled with the debilitating effect of the canisters which penetrated our client’s vehicle, our client and his passenger, like other motorists, road users and the protesters, had no choice but to abandon his vehicle and flee the contaminated scene for his safety.

“When the atmosphere became relatively calm, our client returned to retrieve his vehicle and continue with his business, only to realise that officers of the Nigeria Police Force and LSNC had towed his vehicle from the Lekki Toll Gate to an undisclosed location.

“Our client, as a law-abiding citizen, approached the officers of the Nigeria Police Force and LNSC, who were at the Lekki Toll Gate, to enquire about his vehicle. Rather than respond to our client’s enquiry, the police officers and LNSC officers, without any provocation, swooped on our client and subjected him to prolonged molestation, torture, intimidation, abuse, unwarranted dehumanisation and degrading treatment,” the petition said.

Condemning the assault on the driver, Effiong noted that his client’s liberty had been violated.

He added, “Sequel to the foregoing, we hereby respectfully demand as follows: payment of the sum of N500m to our client as compensation for the gross violation of his fundamental rights by officers of the Nigeria Police Force; severe disciplinary measures should be taken against the police officers who attacked our client; culprits should also be prosecuted in court; a written apology to our client addressed to us for the violation of his rights.”

Odumosu told our correspondent that the command would look into the petition and deal with it based on its merit.

He said, “The case will be assigned to a team and if any officer is identified, the officer will go through our procedure as we are not going to circumvent our procedure.”

Recall that the General Manager of LNSC, Ifalade Oyekan, after an orderly room trial, suspended two officers of the agency who were involved in the act.

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