A video has emerged on the internet showing a yet to be identified policeman seriously beaten at Oshodi area of Lagos State on October 26, 2016 for reportedly pushing an old man into a gutter.
The policeman landed himself in trouble after he attempted to flee the scene while the old man was still lying in the gutter.
According to the video posted on the internet, some concerned residents who witnessed what happened jumped into the gutter and ordered the policeman to bring the old man out of the gutter.
We learnt the policeman was chasing a commercial bus driver when the incident happened.
This was made known in a post shared on the Facebook page of one, Peculiar Lekenson.
The post reads:
“This policeman in a quest to arrest a LT commercial bus push the old man inside d gutter at airport bus stop around 12pm on 26/10/2016. The policeman, his other colleague came in a vanagon bus which they initially arrested then use the same bus to raid on another commercial buses. The other police ran away immediate towards oshodi. While d other in the video attempt to zoom off but was crushed to d wall by the LT bus he was going to arrest.”
Below is the video of the incident:
