The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, has ordered the Commissioner of Police, Kogi State Command to immediately carry out discrete investigations into the incident depicted in the attached trending video from a location believed to be in Kogi State.
The IGP calls for calm, noting that at the end of the investigations, justice will be done to the victim of the incident and police personnel found guilty, brought to book.
Grassroots.ng obtained the viral video in which a young man was physically assaulted by a gun-toting police officer who seemingly got enraged when the victim asked why he should threaten to shoot at passengers of a commercial bus ostensibly for monetary reasons.
A narrator in the video who spoke in pidgin English explained that the man who appears to be in his late 20s was forcibly asked to go with the officers on duty at Okene road, Kogi state to withdraw his money from a POS centre apparently as a punitive measure for daring to question their orders.
The man was also slapped across his face by the officer as seen in the footage.