'I was beaten, detained for 3hrs'

...says he was accused of being rude for questioning police

Seventeen-year-old Samuel Adedoyin, a graphic designer, yesterday, narrated how some policemen attached to the Alagbado division of the Ogun State Police Command, allegedly dragged him out of a commercial bus, beat him and detained him for three hours for no reason.

Adedoyin said he was on his way to Zion Hill Global Church on January 29, 2023, and had his ear pod on to listen to the ongoing service, which was being streamed live.

On approaching Sango bus-stop, he said a mini commercial bus popularly called Korope  he was in, was flagged down by a policeman.

According to him, “When the Korope stopped, one of the policemen ordered me to alight. I removed my earpod and demanded to know why he asked me to come down. I showed him my phone and told him I was late for church and that the service was being streamed online.

“He beckoned to his colleagues and told them I refused to alight from the bus. By then the bus driver had opened the door for me to alight. He told other passengers that he would drive everyone to the police station if I refused to get down.

“I alighted and gave the policemen my bag to search. Instead, they held me by the belt, gave me some beating and dragged me into their bus. I kept asking what I did to deserve the beating but got more beating in response. They kept saying I was rude.

“On arrival at the station, they took me to a room  and gave my phone to a police woman who searched  through it. They asked me what I do for a living and whether I was a foreigner. The police woman even called me a cultist.

“Three hours later, after the woman had gone through my phone and didn’t find anything implicating, she accused me of being rude by questioning the policemen.

“As other policemen were taking me to a detention room, the woman  said@ ‘let the mad dog go.’ Six of the policemen escorted me back to the commercial bus I came in. That was after three hours.  I cleaned the tears on my face, collected my phone from them and wondered why I was maltreated that way without any explanation,” he lamented

When contacted, spokesman for the Ogun State Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the command was not aware of the matter.

He, however, advised the complainant to report the matter to any police division around or visit  the command’s complaint twitter page where there are various telephone numbers to reach the respective area commands.

Culled from Vanguard