Lawyer Petitions Chief of Army Staff Over Alleged Assault on Police Officer

Inibehe Effiong, a public interest and human rights lawyer, has submitted a petition to the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, urging him to identify and discipline a group of Army personnel allegedly involved in assaulting a police officer, ASP Edet Inyang.informationguidenigeria

Effiong made this request in a statement posted on his official social media account on Thursday night.

He detailed that the incident, which involved the torture of ASP Inyang by unidentified Army personnel, occurred on December 9, 2023, near the Nigerian Army’s 63 Brigade in Asaba, Delta State, where the police officer had gone to make personal purchases.JAMB Portal

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Effiong’s petition follows recent warnings by President Bola Tinubu to the Nigerian Army against retaliatory attacks on the police or civilians in response to provocations.

Additionally, the former Director of Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman, emphasized the Army’s zero-tolerance policy for human rights abuses by any personnel or groups in a 2017 interview with The PUNCH, addressing concerns about human rights violations by soldiers.

He said, “We have told you times without number that the Army has zero tolerance for human rights abuses by any of our personnel or group of personnel, as the case may be.”JAMB Portal

Recounting Inyang’s experience in a statement titled “How Nigerian Army Personnel Tortured and Brutalised Serving Police Officer ASP Edet Inwang Till He Lost Consciousness Over Alleged Wrong Parking”, accompanied by video and photo evidence, Effiong requested the Chief of Army Staff to ensure that the culprits are identified and made to face the full wrath of the law.

The statement reads, “These are graphic videos and pictures of a serving Assistant Superintendent of Police posted to the Delta State Police Command, ASP Edet Inyang. The attack happened on the 9th of December 2023. He parked his vehicle at a store close to the Nigerian Army’s 63 Brigade in Asaba to purchase some items.

“Upon parking, he heard the voice of a man on mufti whom he would later identify as one Lance Corporal Onyibuchi of the Intelligence Department attached to the 63 Brigade, Asaba talking from a far distance and speaking in tones which he could not comprehend. While the ranting was going on, a uniformed soldier approached him and requested him to re-park his vehicle.

“He immediately made attempts to comply with the instruction. While he was trying to re-park, the said Lance Corporal approached him and dragged him backwards and asked him why he refused to obey his instructions. Edet tried to explain that he did not hear him properly because he was inaudible given the distance between them. The next thing was for the said Lance Corporal to start pounding on and brutalising ASP Edet along with not less than 10 other soldiers.NYSC Portal

“They brutalised him till he lost consciousness and they had to take him to the military hospital for medical care. It was while in the hospital that one of the officers whom he had worked with in a Joint Taskforce recognised him. The soldiers who tortured him to almost the point of death, upon being queried by their superior, said they did not know that he was a police officer. What a ridiculous statement!

“Should any human being be treated so horribly over alleged wrong parking? Assuming without conceding that he did not park properly, or that he parked at a wrong place, should the response be an attempt on his life? Is traffic offence now within the jurisdiction of the Nigerian Army?”

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