Two policemen have been arrested by the Ondo State Police Command after they were accused of brutalising a man at an Automated Teller Machine point in Akure, Ondo State capital.
In a video posted on the Internet on Saturday, some men suspected to be policemen were seen beating up a man at the ATM point in Oja Oba Market.
A trader at the scene of the assault, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told SUNDAY PUNCH that the victim was attacked on Friday morning.
He said, “We saw the policemen attacking the man. We didn’t know what caused the cops to attack the man but they beat him mercilessly.
“When some people tried to separate them, one of them (policemen) fired a shot into the air to disperse everybody; after that , they took the man away.”
When the Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr. Femi Joseph, was contacted on Saturday for his comment on the incident, he said that the policemen involved had been detained.
Joseph, however, added that the person brutalised by the cops was a psychiatric patient.
He said, “We have the information that the victim is a psychiatric patient because his family has brought his medical records to us. He slapped the policeman when he was being prevented from forcibly opening the gate of the bank.
