Police Inspector Arrested Over Bottle Of Beer While On Duty

CYRIACUS IZUEKWE

A police Inspector attached to Area M Idimu, Lagos Command, has been arrested after he was caught on camera holding a bottle of beer while on duty with his uniform.

He has been arrested and detained at the Provost Office of the State Command for interrogation and necessary actions.

P.M.EXPRESS reports that this was disclosed by the Lagos PPRO, CSP Chike Oti, on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, Mr. Imohimi Edgal. The story went viral on the internet and drew the attention of the top police officers over the image of the force.

Mr Oti stated that 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 officer in question has been identified and arrested. He is Inspector Emmanuel Egba, a police motorcycle rider attached to Area ‘M’ Command, Idimu and not Rapid Response Squad (RRS) as erroneously reported.

When the Inspector was questioned by senior officers, he denied the allegation stating that he recovered the bottle of beer with content from a driver who was drinking right inside his car in traffic. He said that he feared that the driver might get himself intoxicated thereby endangering his life and that of other road users.

The case is however being investigated at the Command’s Provost Section and if his claim is found to be false, appropriate disciplinary actions will be meted out to him after an Orderly Room Trial.