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Nigeria: Police Beat Driver Over N180
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Vanguard (Lagos)
24 March 2008
Posted to the web 24 March 2008
Emma Amaize
FIVE policemen, led by an Inspector, supposedly attached to the Enerhen Police Station, Effurun in Delta State, beat the daylight out of a taxi-driver, Mr. Joshua Oseveta, last Tuesday, in Effurun for daring to ask them for the balance of N180 after giving them a N200 note at a checkpoint.
Oseveta said the policemen were collecting N20 from each taxi driver that passed the route and because he had no change with him, he gave them a N200 note at 7:00 p.m. and when the corporal failed to give him his change of N180, he came out of his vehicle to demand it.
He reported the corporal to the Inspector, who instead of coming to his rescue, allegedly hit him with the butt of his gun.
The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in-charge of the Enerhen Police Station, Gabriel Uhontor, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) told Vanguard, yesterday, that he was not aware of the incident and there was no evidence that the men were from his Division. But the taxi driver who claimed that he would be able to identify the policemen that beat him said he was carrying five passengers from Orhuwhorun Junction to Enerhen Junction when he ran into the policemen near Urhobo College, Effurun.
"Then I was stopped by the Enerhen Police at the checkpoint. They demanded N20 from me and I gave them N200 because I didn't have change, then, I demanded my change from them, but they refused to give me.
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"Before I looked, one of them blew me when I was on the steering, then, I came down, they now asked of my papers, which I gave to them and the papers were correct. After checking the papers, I told them to give me the change and the papers, they refused.
"Even the passengers that I carried told them to give me the change and papers, they also refused. I now went to the Inspector to tell his boys to give me the change and papers. There, the inspector said that my life was in danger. Before I knew it, he hit me with the gun. Their vehicle bore the inscription 'Divisional Police Headquarters, Enerhen," he said.
Chairman of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in the state, Mr. Oghenenanor Ikimi, said the victim is now an outpatient of the General Hospital, Warri, and called on the Inspector-General of Police to look into the plight of the taxi driver by bringing the policemen to book.
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