There was an outrage on New Iyin Road, Ado-Ekiti, as five policemen allegedly descended on the nursing mother of a two-month-old baby, Mrs Toyin Adeyeye, and her driver over her refusal to bribe them. The matter was said to have heightened when the police at the New-Iyin Road checkpoint got wind that Mrs Toyin Adeyeye had wads of dollars.
Upon this knowledge, she demanded that she “settle” with them, and not in Naira but in dollars.
Mrs Adeyeye, upon her refusal to grant the wishes of the police, was allegedly beaten up and later detained at the Police headquarters along Iyin Road in Ado-Ekiti.
The woman, who slept in the police detention with her two-month-old baby, was sighted at the police detention in Ado Ekiti but could not narrate her ordeal.
Her husband, Akanni Adeyeye, however, in an interview with newsmen, decried the alleged brutality meted out on his wife with lacerations on her body and bruises on her face.
Police Commissioner in the state, Abdullahi Chafe, in a telephone interview, alleged that the detained nursing mother slapped a policeman on duty and tore his uniform. When he was further asked what could have prompted the woman to slap a policeman in uniform, Police Commissioner Chafe simply said that “the matter is still under investigation”.
Meanwhile, the state chapter of the Federation of International Women Lawyers (FIDA) has launched an investigation into the matter, as the state chairperson of the body, Funke Anoma, has also visited the station in connection with the matter.
