Police

The Ondo State Police Command has arrested four police officers captured in a viral social media video allegedly making unprofessional and ethnically insensitive remarks to a member of the public during a stop-and-search operation along the Lagos–Benin Expressway. The officers came under widespread criticism after the video surfaced online, showing an altercation with a motorist who identified himself as a United Kingdom returnee. Addressing journalists in Akure yesterday, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Jimoh Abayomi, announced that the officers had been identified and taken into custody. Abayomi, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), said the officers had been identified as ASP Elomore Sodayo (AP/No. 207454), Inspector Adefila Adewale (AP/No. 332012), Inspector Olorunfemi Opeyemi (AP/No. 332449), and Inspector Odusola Peter (AP/No. 332369). Abayomi said the Commissioner of Police in the State, Felix Ohagwu, had ordered a comprehensive investigation into the […]