Some policemen on duty during the Eid-el Kabir have beaten up a Nigerian Army Captain while his seven months pregnant wife was similarly manhandled and allegedly called her a ‘prostitute.’

The incident which caused panic and anger happened at the popular Gidan Mai Roundabout on Sunday at about 7 pm, throwing the entire area into confusion. A relative of the victims said the Captain who was in mufti and in company with his wife in his car reached the police checkpoint and was ordered by the policemen on duty to open his boot for checking just like other motorists. The relative said further that the captain who was stopped by the policemen and demanded for his vehicle particulars tried to explain to them that he was an officer in the Nigeria army.dey should lock those policemen for 45days nd put dem on duty 4 d rest of their service in d police force
 

“The next thing he saw was several policemen descended on him and started beating him. It was later that the police learnt that he was a senior army officer,” he said.

However, another eye witness who was driving from GRA at the time of the incident told our correspondent that the policemen were provoked because the wife was not pleased with the way her husband was being mishandled.
“I think the policemen were not in their best elements because the man was beaten out of sheer provocation and even when he tried to identify himself.

They were insulting his wife, who I believe they did not know was his wife. I later learnt she was pregnant. What annoyed many people was when the wife was abused and even rough handled as she tried to stop them, from beating her husband.”

via Daily Sun