The Head of the Police Public Complaints Rapid Response Unit (PRRCU), ACP Abayomi Shogunle, has angered some Twitter users after comparing Nigerian policemen to their Ghanaian counterparts by level of brutality.
Shogunle shared a video in which a Ghanaian policeman, Lance Corporal Godzi Frederick Amanor, could be seen beating up a nursing mother for unknown reasons.
In the video shot by a witness inside a banking hall, the armed policeman can be seen slapping and hitting the nursing mother with an umbrella and dragging her on the floor at some point.
Shogunle, who shared the video via his verified Twitter handle on Friday evening, captioned it: “WE (@PoliceNG) WILL NEVER DO THIS IN NIGERIA ! A Ghanaian Β policeman beating a nursing mother in Rambo-style inside a banking hall in Accra today. Hope #EndSARS people can see the real police brutality.”
Watch video:
WE (@PoliceNG) WILL NEVER DO THIS IN NIGERIA π³π¬!
A Ghanaian π¬π policeman beating a nursing mother in Rambo-style inside a banking hall in Accra today.
Hope #EndSARS people can see the real police brutality.@PoliceNG_PCRRU pic.twitter.com/o9EwkzK185
— Abayomi Shogunle (@YomiShogunle) July 20, 2018
However, Shogunle’s comment angered many Nigerians who were annoyed by his lack of empathy.
Also, many commentators wondered the yardstick that the senior police officer used to measure that Ghanaian policemen were worse than their Nigerian counterparts.
Many of the commentators further accused Shogunle of lying about the level of brutality visited on hapless Nigerians by the police, saying it was worse than the senior policeman cared to agree with it.
Read reactions to the video:
@YomiShogunle i love u.but u are foolish!!! i stil love u!!! but u are stil foolish .words fail me to describe what i feel about u
— junior omodia (@JuniorOmodia) July 20, 2018
I canβt believe he has degenerated to this.
Act of unprofessionalism
— Aππππ Oππππππππ Sπππππ (@mcphemi_ephicy) July 20, 2018
https://twitter.com/femi_manager02/status/1020366297153056768
You mean this ? π pic.twitter.com/dva5v99CpR
— #May1stDude (@stanley8705) July 20, 2018
It's Friday night. Such tweets are expected.
— β»Nifemiβ’β» (@Nifemi_Olu) July 20, 2018
You mean he's high? π
— #iVolunteerNigeria (@dareadu_samuels) July 20, 2018
You have done worst than this in Nigeria, Nigeria police is the worst and most corrupt in the whole world. #EndSARS
— Ogunyemi Olatunde A. (@Halabamah) July 20, 2018
Yomi, are you justifying SARS brutality in Nigeria or what? This is a very new low from you. SARS need reform, @PoliceNG need reorientation. I am a Police Barrack brought up and I know Nigeria Police brutality. We insist on #EndSARS
— Jackson Ude (@jacksonpbn) July 20, 2018
Meanwhile, Ghanaian authorities have ordered the arrest of the offending officer as investigations were said to have commenced.
In a statement signed by Director of Public Affairs for Ghana Police Force, Sheilla Kessie Abayie-Buckman, police authorites vowed to ensure that Amanor is prosecuted to serve as deterrent to others.
See screenshot of the statement:
