A legal practitioner, based in Warri, Delta State, Chief Robinson Ariyo, has called on the State Commissioner of Police, CP Wale Abass, to investigate the assault on his client, Mr Victor Igbekele, by one Inspector Prince.
Ariyo disclosed this in a petition addressed to the CP.
Reports revealed that on the 5th of December, 2023, the said Igbekele was shot and injured by policemen at Ekrerhavwe Junction along the East-West section of Ughelli Road.
In a swift intervention, the Delta State CP ordered the immediate detention of the erring officer just as he assured members of the public of Justice.
In the petition he forwarded to the CP, Ariyo said Igbekele was travelling from Warri to Ughelli when he was stopped by policemen at a checkpoint.
He disclosed that his client surrendered his car and person for inspection, after which he was allowed to proceed with his journey.
The petition reas in part, “However, no sooner than our client resumed his trip upon the said permission than our client was again stopped a few inches from the initial spot by another member of the same patrol team whose identity by name, our client recalls as Inspector Prince;
“Our client’s frantic attempt to explain to the said Inspector Prince that his colleagues a few inches away had already conducted a thorough stop and check exercise on our client was to no avail as Inspector Prince became instantly infuriated and immediately pounced on our client, shot at our client multiple times hitting our client’s abdomen and knee in addition to the assorted damage done to our client’s vehicle in the course of the said assault.
“That consequent upon the development, our client was immediately rushed to the Central Hospital Ughelli, where the medical team on duty upon assessing the gravity of the injury sustained by our client in the circumstances referred our Client to a Specialist Private Clinic where our client has been receiving treatments till date.
“Our client has undergone and he is still undergoing serval medical procedures including surgery in the abdomen and other parts of his body arising from the unwanted ferocious attack by Inspector Prince in the above described circumstances.
“The above facts adumbrated, the medical team in charge of the treatment of our client has expressed the opinion that the chances of the survival of our client in the circumstances are very low and this has expectedly ushered our client’s relations and friends into panic mood occasioning intense anxiety, and psychological traumatic experience arising therefrom.”
