The Edo State Police Command has arrested an officer, PC Prince Chima, for allegedly threatening civilians with an Ak47 rifle in Benin City.
It was gathered that the incident happened at the Government Reservation Area of Benin City following an argument between the officer and unidentified youth in which the youth was alleged to have insulted the officer.
In the viral video, the officer was seen threatening some persons in their residence with AK47 during the misunderstanding with the unidentified youth.
The command’s spokesperson, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, said following the development, the commissioner, Mr. Funsho Adegboye, ordered the arrest and orderly room trial of the officer after he was identified in the viral video.
He said the commissioner however called for a discreet investigation into the matter and arrested the officer identified as a Police Constable attached to the Department of Operatives (DOP) while using technical intelligence.
“During interrogation, the officer said he was on duty at the NIPCO petrol station along Siloko Road, Benin City, when a certain young man who came to charge his phone had an altercation with him and the man called him a smelling policeman.”
He said that when the man left the petrol station for his residence, after the intervention of the manager of the petrol station, he followed him home, where what was seen in the video on the internet happened.
“The CP has directed the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the X-Squad section to investigate the erring policeman to ascertain his mental health status through the command medical officer and commit him to a disciplinary process known as an orderly room trial,” he said.