{"id":12743,"date":"2021-03-24T18:56:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T17:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=12743"},"modified":"2021-03-24T18:56:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T17:56:32","slug":"activist-narrates-how-he-was-detained-and-beaten-up-for-filming-police-brutality-in-lagos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/24\/activist-narrates-how-he-was-detained-and-beaten-up-for-filming-police-brutality-in-lagos\/","title":{"rendered":"Activist narrates how he was detained and beaten up for filming police brutality in Lagos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An activist identified as Tunde Abass has narrated how he was arrested and detained for filming an incident of police brutality in Lagos state.<\/p>\n<p>WITHIN NIGERIA learnt that the activist, Tunde was arrested on Sunday, March 21 by officers attached to Onipanu Division for filming them in operation.<\/p>\n<p>A yet-to-be identified policeman was seen trying to harass a young man driving a wine-colored car in a video live-streamed on his Facebook account.<\/p>\n<p>Angered by the actions of the police officers, Tunde could be heard shouting at the top of his voice and telling the police officer not to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2021\/03\/19\/sexual-harassment-fani-kayode-uses-police-to-hunt-for-ex-employees-arrest-driver\/\">harass<\/a> the man because \u201che has provided necessary documents\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cYou\u2019re trying to intimidate the guy. 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They\u2019re trying to intimidate the guy,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Speaking through his counsel, Ayo Ademiluyi, Tunde said he arrested and detained and was also denied food brought by his friends and \u201cbeaten black and blue\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cHe was also detained with a mentally deformed detainee who made his midnight sleep a miserable one by kicking him in the sides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was taken to the Yaba Magistrate Court, where the police officers who brought him from Onipanu Division were not successful in filing trumped-up charges against him after same was rejected by the counsel from the Department of Public Relations, who vetted the charges&#8221; Ademiluyi said<\/p>\n<p>According to the account, the police officers returned him to the cell at Onipanu Division before taking him to Legal Department of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti \u201cand were unsuccessful in getting a charge preferred against him\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cIn frustration, they handed him over to Divisional Police Officer of Pedro Police Station who kept him in a dark and dingy solitary cell, where nobody will have access to him,\u201d the lawyer said<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tunde has now been released from detention. 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