The Lagos state Police command has said that it has arrested a Police man caught on camera holding a bottle of beer while on duty.
Recall that the Guardian Newspaper had on page two of its Wednesday 12th September, 2018 edition published a picture of a Police man holding a bottle of beer while on duty.
However, the command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Chike Oti in a statement issued in Lagos on Wednesday disclosed that the Police man had been identified and arrested.
He is Inspector Emmanuel Egba.
The statement clarified that contrary to the report, Inspector Egba is a Police motorcycle rider attached to Area ‘M’ command, Idimu and not Rapid Response Squad (RRS ) as erroneously reported.
The statement further informed that on interrogation, the officer denied the allegation stating that he recovered the beer bottle with liquid contents from a driver who was drinking right inside his car in traffic.
It added that officer posited that he feared that the driver might get himself intoxicated thereby endangering his life and that of other road users.
“The attention of the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Edgal Imohimi has been drawn to a publication on page two of the Guardian Newspaper of Wednesday September 12, 2018, in which a police Inspector was caught in camera holding a bottle of beer.
“The case is however being investigated at the Command Provost Section and if his claim is found to be false, appropriate disciplinary action will be meted out to him after an Orderly Room Trial”, the statement said.
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