Medical doctors in an
undisclosed private hospital at Idimu area of Lagos, are currentlybattling to
save the life of a pregnant woman, Mrs. Gloria James who was allegedly beaten
to a state of coma by children of a Mobile Policeman attached to MOPOL 20,
Inspector Richard Ekpo, last Friday.
Unfortunately for the
woman, efforts by doctors to save her first two months pregnancy failed .Mrs.
Gloria Oluwatomiwa James was allegedly first attacked by one of the policeman’s
son identified simply as Olorunda in front of her shop at Idimu Mammy market
during a verbal confrontation. Trouble, as gathered, started when she demanded
for an apology from Olorunda whom she said stepped on her while he was going to
smoke Indian hemp from a local dealer around her shop. Eye witnesses told Crime
Guard Vanguard that the area is not only noted for smoking Indian hemp but also
a haven for cultists.
Although, there had
reportedly been several raids and subsequentarrests by policemen, but that has
not stopped the deed.Rather than apologise, Olorunda, as gathered, reportedly
was not any remorseful but confronted her. He allegedly pounced on the pregnant
woman for daring to ask him to apologise and gave her a thorough beating.
Consequently she was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. Crime Guard
learnt also that when her husband went to report the ugly development to the
Mobile Policeman, he was also attacked by his children. The seriously wounded
woman narrated how the incident happened on her hospital bed. Explaining with
difficulty owing to the bruises on her mouth she said:
“Last Friday, I was sitting
in front of my boutique because there was no light, when a young man came to
buy Indian hemp from one of the local dealers around. As he was trying to sneak
in to avoid being seen, he stepped on my feet. As I bent to move his leg, he
asked why I was touching him rather than apologise. Even when I showed him the
sand from the sole of his slippers that was still on my feet, he still insisted
that he didn’t step on me. An argument ensued during which he threatened to
deal ruthlessly with me if I opened my mouth to talk again. Before I could
respond, he slapped and started hitting me. Other shop owners who came to
rescue me from his grips withdrew immediately they discovered he was the one.
This is because everyone is afraid of him in that area. That was how he
continued to hit me, even when I ran inside my shop. It took the intervention
of a policeman in uniform to rescue me from him.” She continued:“ As I was
nursing my wound , he came back and demanded that I should give him N18, 000 for
his gold necklace. I told him I didn’t see any necklace on him when he came and
before I knew it, he continued from where he stopped. He went ahead to destroy
my wares…"
At that point, I ran to a
corner of the shop and picked up my phone to call my husband. Immediately he
saw me, he dared me to call anyone, boasting that he was the son of a Mobile
Policeman and that nobody can do anything to him. When I had the opportunity, I
sneaked out to Idimu Police division to lodge a complaint.
POLICE ATTITUDE
“Immediately I told the
policemen that I was beaten by the son of a Mobile Policeman, they looked the
other way. Then, all of a sudden, I started feeling funny and started vomiting.
Rather than sympathize with me, the policemen at the counter drove me outside,
saying I should not mess up the environment. I went outside as directed and
sent a text message to my husband to rush to the station that I was dying.
When he came, one of the
policemen told him to take me to the hospital. Even when he appealed to the
policemen to effect the arrest of their colleague’s son who was still
destroying things in my shop, they refused. Out of pity, one of the policemen
whom I contacted earlier drove in with a van and volunteered to take me to the
hospital. We, however, went to my husband’s shop first to take some money. On
our way back, we stopped by Inspector Ekpo’s house to inform him of his son’s
action. But his wife walked us out of her compound.
ANOTHER ATTACK
Immediately we came out of the barracks gate,
we were attacked by Olorunda, his brothers and their friends. They hit my husband
with dangerous objects. In the process I fell down. They kicked me continuously
on the stomach until I passed out, only to wake up to find myself in the
hospital a week after. Collaborating her claim, her husband alleged that when
he went to report the case at Idimu Division, he was thrown inside the cell on
the instruction of the Mobile Policeman whose children manhandled his wife. I
was released after four days. “Again, when I went to open my shop, Inspector
Akpo came again with his children to attack me, asking who told me to open the
shop. I was tear-gased inside a supermarket where I had run into to take
refuge. Since then, I have not opened my shop,” he lamented. Following this
development, Crime Guard reliably gathered that after getting a strongly worded
petition, Force Headquarters, Abuja ordered the immediate arrest of Inspector
Ekpo while his children are presently on the run.
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