A housewife, Mrs. Happiness Liberty has narrated to SaharaReporters how she and her family members were abused by policemen from the division.
The Nigeria Police Force, Lagos State command has ordered the investigation of some officers of the Igando division, accused of torturing, detaining a woman, her husband, his siblings, her three children including an 11-month-old baby.
A housewife, Mrs. Happiness Liberty has narrated to SaharaReporters how she and her family members were abused by policemen from the division.
She had noted that after the injuries inflicted on them including their children, the police went ahead and arraigned the family to cover up for the torture.
She said that their arraignment was to justify her incarceration with her children in police custody for days with accompanying threats not to grant any interview to the media or her husband and siblings would be killed.
Happiness had said their ordeal started from Sunday September 11, 2022, adding that they were tortured and for four days from 11 to 14 September, 2022 without food or water.
While narrating the incident, the mother of three stated that on Sunday, 11 September 2022, they were returning from Church in the evening when a commercial motorcycle otherwise known as “Okada” knocked her husband.
Trouble, she said, began when her husband turned around and asked the driver why he hit him with his bike.
Instead of apologising, the driver who was later identified as a police officer attached to the Igando Police Division questioned whether he knew his identity.
While the conversation went on, the police officer allegedly slapped her husband.
She further stated that when her husband's siblings, who were some distance behind, came to enquire what was going on, the policeman, who was identified as Martin A, equally slapped her younger sister who was carrying her 11-month-old baby.
Meanwhile, Happiness further disclosed that the said police officer, Martin had been threatening her family if they dared to grant an interview to the media.
Another resident of the community who gave her name as Sharon Alede also told SaharaReporters that she had been assaulted sexually by no other person but the Divisional Police Officer, when she was detained in the station after domestic quarrel a neighbour.
Reacting to the story on Twitter, Lagos police spokesperson, Ben Hundeyin said the X-Squad department of the command had commenced in-depth investigations.
“The entire family is at the Police Headquarters as I tweet this (I won’t post their picture for their privacy). The DPO and another officer involved are also here. The X-Squad department of the Command has commenced in-depth investigations,” he said.