POLICE BRUTALITY: Imo Police Command Begins Trial Of 6 Officers Caught On Camera Assaulting Imo Varsity Students Over Phone Access

While the outcry over police has continued unabated despite #ENDSARS protest with reports of inhuman treatments by the police operatives across the country.

Responding to the recent incident in Imo State, the Imo State command of the Nigerian Police Force has paraded six officers of the command who were caught on camera assaulting students with machete for refusing to let them have access to their phones.

NewsTrack Nigeria (newstrack.com.ng) learnt that the Command has commenced room trial of the suspect’s (policemen) who are namely, the team leader, Inspector Amadi Sunday, Inspector Amajuoji Charles, Sgt Noachian Chinese, Sgt Onwuka Emmanuel, Cpl Nzewuodo Goodness, Pc Emmanuel Chmezie.

The students are from the Imo State University students who were accosted by the men of the Police force in Imo state, asking them to give them access to their phones, but refused and the offers in anger, decided to take the law into their hands by flogging them with machete, not knowing they were been captured on phone.

Recently, too, in a viral video, a police officer was seen flogging and slapping a full grown man in a such a humiliating manner.

That disgraceful act drew the anger of the public calling for the head of the assaulting officer who was later demoted.