The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Hakeem O. Odumosu, has been reprimanded for the bodily and mental assaults meted out to Chief Patrick Osagie Eholor, President of the Benin-based One Love Foundation, a frontline non- governmental organisation (NGO) and pressure group in the country.
Eholor was arrested and taken into detention by operatives of the Lagos state police command.
Comrade Tony Erha, a rights activist, said: “The Lagos police appeared not have learnt from the grievous mistakes they made a year ago, by repeating such dastard acts of molestation of peaceful protesters at the same scene of Lekki Tollgate, Lagos, where innocent and peaceful protesters were maimed and murdered by police and soldiers, thus spurring a global outcry and inquest into the ugly incidents, during the EndSARS countrywide protests.
“Repeating the same brutality on peaceful protesters at the same spot indicates that the Lagos police are still uncivil and daft in learning new things”
Comrade Erha, who is also a journalist and one of the spins of the nation’s civil society movement, is Assistant National Secretary to the Labour and Civil Society Coalition (LASCO).
“Mr Odumosu should have given a written apology instead of the verbal apologies he had given to Chief Eholor, over the barbaric pummeling on him and destruction caused to his personal assets, by his men before he was detained for hours at a Lagos police station before he was released.
“When public-spirited people are humiliated that way, where is the end to police brutality and oppression?”
Erha also called for the arrest and legal trial of those policemen and security agents who clamped down on the susceptible protesters at the same spot they committed mayhem on innocent persons, a years ago.
Chief Eholor, more known as “Ultimate Equals,” encountered the Lagos policemen and other security agents during a peaceful protest marking the first anniversary of the alleged killing and maiming of protesters at the Lekki- Lagos Tollgate.
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