"WE WILL SURELY GET THE MEN" — CSP REACTS ON THE VIRAL VIDEO SHOWING A POLICE OFFICER ASSAULTING A MAN

The video of a police officer flogging a man in Port Harcourt has prompted a response from CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the spokesperson for the Nigerian Police Force.

In the viral video, an officer is seen beating a man with a cane as his colleague confronts the man's female companion.

The act of flopping someone, according to Adejobi, is unethical. The man did not deserve to be beaten "like a baby," he continued, regardless of what he must have done.''

That's really too bad. I've asked the Rivers State Command to fish them out. This is unethical, against the law, and unacceptable. Whatever the man must have done, he doesn't deserve this beating. Beating him like an infant? A grown man? We'll undoubtedly find the men."

Finally, "These men have been arrested, and their commander will personally bring to the Force Headquarters tomorrow Tuesday for further actions. They are 3 in number, attached to RRS, Rivers State. Their action does not portray the police in a good light at all."      

"It is still to buttress my point that whatever a policeman does is personal, not systemic. I wonder how a man, a reasonable man, would be flogging or slapping a  grown-up man in that manner. So barbaric and unpolice," he said.