Ekiti State government on Sunday night announced its
interest in the case of a woman said to have been beaten to a pulp by some
policemen in Ado Ekiti during the weekend.
It could be re-called that some policemen were alleged to
brutalized the nursing mother for refusing to offer them bribe.
DAILY POST reports that the state governor, Mr Ayo Fayose
made this known while featuring on a monthly public enlightenment programme, code
named “The Governor Explains”.
He disclosed that an investigation team had been raised to
unravel what actually transpired between the woman and the police, and bring
the policemen that perpetrated the act to book.
The governor said he was particularly disturbed by media
reports linking policemen to the alleged beating of the woman, in spite of her
status as a nursing mother.
He described as regrettable, the said police action which he
lamented was coming barely two weeks of his celebrating Women’s Day with
funfare.
The governor declared that the law on violence against women
was still subsisting in the state, and that the law would be applied as
appropriate in this matter.
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