1
00:00:00,200 –> 00:00:04,360
Speaker 1: Edo State Police Commissioner Monday Agbonica says he has arrested

2
00:00:04,400 –> 00:00:08,279
policemen seen venting their anger and destroying vehicles in Benin

3
00:00:08,439 –> 00:00:10,919
City after they were sent as a backup team to

4
00:00:11,000 –> 00:00:14,359
rescue their colleagues. Some men of the Inspector General of

5
00:00:14,439 –> 00:00:19,120
Police Intelligence Response Team ART, who apparently were overpowered by

6
00:00:19,160 –> 00:00:22,600
a group of youths who protested, demanded and ensured the

7
00:00:22,679 –> 00:00:26,960
irate officers released the suspects. The special police officers had

8
00:00:27,079 –> 00:00:31,039
arrested on ground of alleged unlawful arrest which to extort

9
00:00:31,120 –> 00:00:34,920
money from the suspects, forcing the protesting youths to vandalize

10
00:00:34,920 –> 00:00:38,159
the police vehicle at Ockenwan quarters in a Luku area

11
00:00:38,320 –> 00:00:42,719
of Ovia Northeast Local government area of Edo State last week.

12
00:00:43,079 –> 00:00:46,200
And in addition to this, the Inspector General of Police

13
00:00:46,240 –> 00:00:50,200
has also subjected six offices including their supervisor, to a

14
00:00:50,240 –> 00:00:54,039
disciplinary action after a viral video that was circulated on

15
00:00:54,119 –> 00:00:57,600
TikTok and other social media platforms saw one of the

16
00:00:57,640 –> 00:01:01,679
offices of the Nigerian Police Force extorting money from travelers

17
00:01:01,679 –> 00:01:05,079
along the Benin Bypass in Edo’s State under the pretense

18
00:01:05,079 –> 00:01:10,760
of enforcing the Electronic Central Motor Registry ECMR certificate, even

19
00:01:10,840 –> 00:01:13,920
when the Inspector General of Police has long suspended the

20
00:01:14,079 –> 00:01:18,680
enforcement since July twenty twenty four. According to the statement

21
00:01:18,760 –> 00:01:23,319
issued on Wednesday by the Edo Police Command spokesperson Moses Yamu,

22
00:01:23,640 –> 00:01:27,000
you may recall the unfortunate attack on IRT personnel by

23
00:01:27,040 –> 00:01:30,280
some protesting youth at Dockoenwen community on the twentieth of

24
00:01:30,359 –> 00:01:33,879
May twenty twenty five, while in transit from Lagos through

25
00:01:34,040 –> 00:01:37,599
Edo State, leaving them with various degrees of life threatening

26
00:01:37,640 –> 00:01:42,280
injuries and their vehicle vandalized. A reinforcement team deployed to

27
00:01:42,319 –> 00:01:45,959
the scene successfully rescued these offices and affected the arrests

28
00:01:46,000 –> 00:01:49,599
of some of the miscreants involved in the attack. However,

29
00:01:50,079 –> 00:01:53,359
some offices were captured in a video conducting themselves in

30
00:01:53,400 –> 00:01:56,799
an unprofessional manner smashing a vehicle part in the location.

31
00:01:57,680 –> 00:02:00,760
Inasmuch as the Command condemns the act of attacking the

32
00:02:00,799 –> 00:02:04,719
IT personnel, it views the police conduct during the rescuers

33
00:02:04,799 –> 00:02:09,840
highly unprofessional. Therefore, these personnel, who have been identified to

34
00:02:09,879 –> 00:02:13,000
be from the Command’s Quick Response Team, have been arrested

35
00:02:13,000 –> 00:02:16,719
and are currently undergoing disciplinary procedures as stipulated in the

36
00:02:16,719 –> 00:02:23,280
Police regulations CP Monday Agbonica FDC called for mutual accountability

37
00:02:23,319 –> 00:02:25,879
from the general public as he assures the good people

38
00:02:25,919 –> 00:02:29,199
of Edo’s state of the command’s commitment to delivering policing

39
00:02:29,319 –> 00:02:33,639
services in line with best practices, the police spokesperson stated.

40
00:02:34,400 –> 00:02:38,719
In another development, the police command spokesperson said that in

41
00:02:38,759 –> 00:02:42,879
its sustained raids against criminals through credible intelligence that some

42
00:02:43,000 –> 00:02:47,719
persons suspected to be armed robbers, kidnappers cultists were hibernating

43
00:02:47,719 –> 00:02:51,199
at kendrin A hotel. Operatives of the Anti Money Laundering

44
00:02:51,280 –> 00:02:55,719
and Terrorism Financing Unit of the State Criminal Investigations Department

45
00:02:56,120 –> 00:03:00,520
SCID raided the location off Country Home Road, beneath City

46
00:03:00,560 –> 00:03:04,800
on the thirteenth of May twenty twenty five. During the operation,

47
00:03:05,360 –> 00:03:09,520
one Endurance OVOG twenty two years was arrested, while others

48
00:03:09,599 –> 00:03:14,639
later identified as Clinton, Jeff, Mike and Emmanuel alias Slimkily

49
00:03:14,759 –> 00:03:18,759
for surnames yet unknown, escaped through the fence to neighboring compounds.

50
00:03:19,319 –> 00:03:23,159
The following exhibits were immediately recovered in their possession. One

51
00:03:23,199 –> 00:03:28,599
English baretta pistol one locally fabricated pistol one ammunition, eighteen

52
00:03:28,680 –> 00:03:33,280
live cartridges, five handsets, of various Make one electronic tablet

53
00:03:33,599 –> 00:03:37,960
charms and illicit drugs were recovered. Further investigations led to

54
00:03:37,960 –> 00:03:41,960
the recovery of four Mercedes Benz vehicles viz. One Black

55
00:03:42,000 –> 00:03:45,360
C three hundred and fifty, one Gray C three hundred,

56
00:03:45,639 –> 00:03:48,960
one Gray GLA two hundred and fifty and one one

57
00:03:49,159 –> 00:03:53,759
Read GL three hundred and fifty, all unregistered. The arrested

58
00:03:53,840 –> 00:03:57,039
suspects have been charged to court for prosecution, while the

59
00:03:57,080 –> 00:03:59,840
man hunt for the fleeing members of the gang continues.

60
00:04:00,639 –> 00:04:04,919
C P Monday, Agbonica FDC warns all criminals to either

61
00:04:04,960 –> 00:04:09,039
relocate from the state or face the music. He assures

62
00:04:09,080 –> 00:04:11,479
the good people of the Edo State that the Command

63
00:04:11,520 –> 00:04:15,199
would sustain its commitment against crime until every one feels

64
00:04:15,240 –> 00:04:19,800
safe anywhere he she is. Update on extortion incident along

65
00:04:19,839 –> 00:04:23,759
Benin by Pass. Following the circulation of a viral video

66
00:04:23,879 –> 00:04:27,959
showing acts of extortion by police offices along the Benine Bypass,

67
00:04:28,399 –> 00:04:31,759
the Nigeria Police Force, in line with its sero tolerance

68
00:04:31,800 –> 00:04:36,279
policy on extortion and unprofessional conduct, has taken immediate action.

69
00:04:37,199 –> 00:04:41,040
Upon their arrival at the force headquarters. The six erring offices,

70
00:04:41,399 –> 00:04:45,959
including their supervising Officer, A Chief Superintendent of Police were

71
00:04:46,000 –> 00:04:48,959
marched into a peer before the Inspector General of Police

72
00:04:49,279 –> 00:04:53,920
ig P Coode Adeolu Eggbatoken p h d n p M,

73
00:04:54,199 –> 00:04:59,040
who condemned their actions as shameful, distasteful and utterly unacceptable,

74
00:05:00,040 –> 00:05:04,079
further ordered the immediate commencement of disciplinary procedures against all

75
00:05:04,160 –> 00:05:09,399
six offices involved. Accordingly, the offices have been queried, while

76
00:05:09,480 –> 00:05:12,879
orderly room trials for the inspectors implicated in the video

77
00:05:12,959 –> 00:05:18,199
have commenced. This reiterates the Force’s commitment to upholding professionalism,

78
00:05:18,560 –> 00:05:23,199
integrity and accountability. The public is assured that such misconduct

79
00:05:23,279 –> 00:05:27,040
will not be tolerated under any guise and appropriate sanctions

80
00:05:27,079 –> 00:05:30,399
will be meeted out in line with established disciplinary procedures,

81
00:05:30,800 –> 00:05:35,319
the Police Force Headquarters stated in a press release on Wednesday.

82
00:05:40,360 –> 00:05:43,480
Bingi Guigni in emotage Way