A clip which surfaced few days ago on the social media, showing a police officer identified as Arthur Okeke harrasing a pregnant woman with disregard for her condition has continued to attract more reactions.
The victim, Mrs. Rashidat Oyelowo Abdulmajeed recounted her experience while speaking to journalists in Lagos. She told of how the police officer conducted himself very embarrassingly. Find the video here
The victim stated that she was slapped and her hijab was also torn during the encounter on the bus with police officer, Mr. Arthur Okeke.
She narrated that the policeman was in a seat behind the
one she sat on the bus, and he officer leaned forward, resting his arms
on guard of her own seat, but her back was also relaxed on same guard.
The woman said Officer Arthur Okeke ordered her to raise
her back from the seat, but she had responded that it was meant for
occupant of seats to rest their back on. Besides, she said, she told the
officer that she was pregnant.
Officer Arthur began assaulting her thereafter.
"He pulled my hijab from the back and forcefully reclined my head backwards so that my head hung over", she said.
Her narration, which buttressed the visual spreading on the
social media, included how the police officer ordered the bus to stop
and also asked every passenger to alight so he'd torture her more. She
said every passenger condemned his actions, but most of them were under
trepidation he might harm them.
While the bus stopped, the officer also called on another
who was directing the traffic, on the road to join him in the act, but
he was turned down.
Reacting to the incidence in Lagos, female activist and
president of Women Arise, Dr. Joe Oke-Odumakin who received the victim
in her office on Friday, called on the Police Inspector General, Mr. Ibrahim Mohammed to take on the erring officer for disciplinary action.
Okei-Odumakin warned that the spate of police
indiscriminate molestation of citizens is on the increase and moreso,
unacceptable.
"I trust the IG of police that he will take action on this
and bring Arthur Okeke to book. But failure to do this, we will mobilize
all pregnant Women and protest police brutality on the street for the
sake of Mrs. Rasheedat", she said.
Meanwhile, the Police Force has not said anything about
disgraceful conduct of the officer, despite many communications to it
about the incidence.
Severally, the video has been tweeted, tagging the Police
authority on social media with the video, but no single response from
the police came on it.
71 comments:
I once lashed out on d lady dt recorded policemen embarrassing her n received so many insults
Now dis policeman jst proved me totally wrong!! Smh!! A pregnant woman?????
#Pesty
Dont worry. They will react to it now.
Na wa 4 lagos every is happen in dat lagos
With the high rate of impunity i doubt if anything will be done about it
Police very stupid people #bright bravo#
OFFICERS ALWAYS MISHAVING..... ORDERING PPLE ABOUT LIKE DEY AINT HUMANS......
BEATING UP ND MOLESTING CITIZENS DEY SWORN TO PROTECT...
GDMONI LINDA ND LIBERS..
HAPI SUNDAY......
Our men in uniform do not understand what that uniform means, they think it is to intimidate instead of protect. I think it is time someone schooled them on their duties! How can you do that to a pregnant woman? How can you do that to a woman, a person period?!
Too bad.d society we live in is filled with mobs,calling themselves Police and soldiers,who are suppose to protect d citizens but are seen doing d exact opposite.d police force had beta discipline him.I support Dr Joe on this
Linda work on ur block I can't comment on ur post
Nigerian police shame on you. Even on a pregnant woman? Only in Nigeria such news emanate. The IG as a matter of urgency should act on this issue before it lingers !!
Dey beta do sumtin bout dis
Wen wil I be able to comment in dis blog
She want to mobilize pregnant women for protest. If gbege start, hope say those women no go get miscarriage or complication....
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Justice must prevail on dis issue! Dat stupid police officer must be thoroughly disciplined# useless people!
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I will advise the jobless Dr Joe to first mobilise against the solders that burnt down several BRT buses, other people's cars and brutalised people on the street of Lagos. Also, there are several Arthur Okeke in the Nigerian Police Force, what is the man's force number? My blame is for the Nigerian Police who has brought themselves to an object of ridicule to members of the public. Shame!!! It is only happening in Nigeria, not anywhere in the world. Police men dies everyday for this country, Dr Joe Odumakin has never mobilise against Nigeria. No wonder, I can see the signs of that hate of the Nigerian Police on her face.
I will advise the jobless Dr Joe to first mobilise against the solders that burnt down several BRT buses, other people's cars and brutalised people on the street of Lagos. Also, there are several Arthur Okeke in the Nigerian Police Force, what is the man's force number? My blame is for the Nigerian Police who has brought themselves to an object of ridicule to members of the public. Shame!!! It is only happening in Nigeria, not anywhere in the world. Police men dies everyday for this country, Dr Joe Odumakin has never mobilise against Nigeria. No wonder, I can see the signs of that hate of the Nigerian Police on her face.
I suggest they transfer this moron immediately to Chibok in Borno immediately.He'll learn a leSson or two there
Men in Uniform in dis country are sumfin else!!!!Retards
They have power to fight ordinary and helpless civilians...let them go to sambisa forest and prove to Nigerians that they can fight and bring back our lost glory! Mba stupid useless police people won't go! Na to collect bribe them sabi,awon werey oshi...
N ds nincompoo wld hv a wife n mayb kids,yet he treats an expecting woman ds way....he sld be sanctioned immediately pls n pls.esp to serve as deterrent to odas
Useless ppl called police
Naija Police na wa 4 dem.
You must be in the Police.. Or maybe your parents fed you from their ill gotten riches being retirees. Let me quickly educate you, 1)Joel Ogunmakin, is a woman right activist, so how does the Palmgrove incident apply here. 2.Arthur Okeke's Service no is 453255. In between.
.. Are you sure you are not the shameless Okeke Fargot? Policemen die everyday my nose.... how many do they kill everyday? Goat like you.
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What happened to the Hausa-Fulani policeman who beat a yoruba woman even in a dirty pool of water and corked his gun threatening to shoot her ?
Surprising, this Joe odumakin was no where to seen defending that women. Why ? Because the policeman was an Hausa-Fulani.
Some people from a certain section of this country seem to have been accorded the right and the impunity to brutalize others and go free and even kill nigerians with their herdsmen and boko haram brothers and nothing happens to them.
Not all Nigerians are equal. Some are more equal than others. This foolish policeman should have known that. How he now wishes he was an Hausa-fulani to freely do what he did and Nigerian hypocrites and cowards will look the other way and let him go free.
Nigerian police is useless as a whole..the army too..All they do is beat up innocent civilians............................#KingOfKings
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Let our police be jare,they ar trying
Majority of the police officers in this country are idiots and animals in uniform. The guy better be dealt with or else the police head is cursed. Rubbish people
Jezz! I so much dislike d Nigerian police force
Haba that's cruelty of d highest order.... I hope the woman is safe aswell as her baby
The policeman should be punish for this, a pregnant woman for that matter
The officer over reacted but he should not bear all the blame bcos women has formed the habit of relaxing much in a public bus as if they r in their sitting room and when one try to put them in order, they will fire back on you in as much as u r not d husband...women should learn how to sit in a public bus plz to avoid assaults....
Mind you I do condemn the assault by d officer
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You are a moron if all you can see in this is tribe. Animal I'm sure you are a policeman. Fool.
Where in lagos did dis incident tk place unless d police was armed if is my area d passengers ll beat d police. Choi
Anon 10:27AM, u re insane n I know that u re a member of d force! Useless people. Joe Odumakin is a human rights activist, specifically fighting for the RIGHTS OF WOMEN. She doesn't fight 4 d rights of police officers, get that into ur thick skull.
@Ekpeyong, n who told u that d police officer that brutalized the Yoruba land went away scot free. And where were u when Joe Odumakin took up d case? Is it that u re ignorant or less informed? Abeg park well. For ur information, Joe Odumakin was n is still fully involved in that case, say what u know n stop spilling NONSENSE.
Smh! Dats d country live in now! A Lot of frustrated people roaming abt in uniforms.
@ Linda, what a shame! The recruitment exercise of both our law makers & those who uphold these laws should include intense mental state!!!
The guy clearly is so power drunk & very likely high on some substance cum intoxicant!!!
Assaulting a woman who's preggers as well in the UK hmmm I just wonder!!!
He has to be brought to be brought to books!!!
This is what they do
That's how they live
There should be a commission to check on the police on the street
There's still road blocks despite it's said to stop
DAMN
Yes ooo Pesty
Misd ur comments wia u go
Abi my guy , nigeria policemen are so terrible, bin a while sha
Pls they should arrest the Goat policeman.....
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Stop it whoever you may be,our men in uniform especially police are heartless that know nothing but bribe and intimidation,for his force number make your research clearly all details about him are known
Ur comment then baffled me. Now u know our policemen are not human, where u waka go b4
Some of these uniform men are someone else...
God have mercy on you
men in uniform...nah wa ooo... nkemdirimeverista111@gmail.com
hypocrites patoswife@gmail.com
Yeye man... A coward... Hw on earth wuld he treat a woman like dat, let alone a pregnant one
I was assaulted by a police woman at Ajah roundabout, she hit me with her touch light and even broke my side mirror, she even went further to threaten me that she will kill me.
Welcome o Mr okeke or who are you?
Your write up reeks of gullibility, for your info --- Joe odumakin is for women in distress, ok.
Retards like you belong to jungle, naija police is not worth defending unless you are one of them.
Every time I see them in there dirty smelling black on black I feel like crushing them.
Some of them can do anything to squeeze money from people.
It's so shameful to see a fully kitted police man fighting a woman in the full glare of the public.
Awon ole lasan.
Nawaoo!!!!
Nigerian police and Nigerian military are PIGS!
Gad-DAMN!!! Bros/sist Wentin u dey try talk? As in Ehn, na here English die.
I'm sure he beats his wife...and when she was pregnant too. Infact I'm sure he beats his mother
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Which way Nigeria? Frustrated people in uniform!!!
Community police is coming too oooo hmmm. Jopeyemi@gmail.com
Policemen are jst somtin else. All they do is wear their stinking uniforms, collect #20 bribe, (if @all they've increased it) and misbehave and still they get paid for this! Continue, d muscles that you're flexing on your fellow civilians, God will see you and punish you all... *Flora*
@Didymus, its like you don't know who Dr Odumakin is , trust me she will follow this tothe end if action is not taken.
You too get am! All this policemen and soldiers that are misbehaving should be transferred to Sambisa already. Useless people!! Whose Hero are they self, because all their fronting I don't understand
Sir, your comments are totally disheartening. Yes, you must be a man and maybe a policeman. Shame on you. Odumakin is a women's right activist. Even if she is not must she fight every battle?! You need to start calling your colleagues to order. Nonsense.
God bless u anon 10:51am. You have said it all. The number of police officers that die everyday can never be compared to the ones they kill. Corruption has eaten deep into their souls. They are one of the problems of Nigeria
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Madubuko u are a great fool.idiot oshi
OK! Apologies if Ms Joe Odumakin is ALSO on the case of the hausa policeman who beat that yoruba woman up inside a pool of dirty water.
We are just tired of the impunity that Nigerians silently and cowardly have accorded to the hausas where they beat, torture, rape and slaughter other Nigerians at the snap of the finger and nothing nothing ever happens to them. This is unbearable. Not even a single court case brought against any of them since 1970 for all their killings of nigerians via their herdsmen and now boko haram.
Are nigerians the cows of hausa-fulani?
Madubuko, u r obviously an idiot who will one day beat up his wife for relaxing too much. How can u post such a silly comment with your face actually showing? So even if d woman had insulted him which she ddnt, he couldn't control himself abi? If he could do dt to a woman outside, only God knows what his wife goes through at home. For u, who I want to believe is educated to utter such rubbish is baffling. Am sure if she were your mother or pregnant wife youl have a different opinion, idiot!
Thank you Anon 9:31, you took the reply to Madubuko Jaybee right out of my mouth. He even had guts to show his face o.
Policemen, most of them,especially the young one's don't give regard to anybody
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@Madubuko Jaybee u are very shameless 2 utter/type such nonsense. Did u even read d story?? Imagine d insolence. U must be a big fool.
So if ur wife comes back & narrates such ordeal, dis is wat u wld say 2her. SMH for ur kind of Men.
#U are extremely annoying
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