According to the Punch Metro, a mobile police officer Attah Aninoko attached to the house former Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar is currently cooling off his heels at the Ikoyi division of the police for allegedly beating a staff of the Eko Electricity Distribution Company who disconnected power to the house of the former IG.
The staff identified as Dele Ogundele, is said to be receiving medical care after he was allegedly brutalized and dragged down from an electric pole opposite the house on Thursday and given the beating of his life for disconnecting power to the house by a police sergeant.
The Eko Electricity Distribution Company’s Head of Corporate Communications Department Mr. Godwin Idemudia, who confirmed the incident, said the matter has been reported to the police and the sergeant has been arrested and detained at the at the Ikoyi police division.
Idemudia in a chat with newsmen said the house of the former IG owed a bill of N154,693.85, adding that the name on the bill was one Yusuf.
Idemudia in his words said “What we do is that anytime customers don’t respond and pay their bills, we go out with copies of their bills. When we get to their houses, we tell them what they owe and ask if they had made any payment in the last 24 hours. If they can’t produce any evidence of such, we disconnect their electricity. That was what we did in this case. We had two of our vehicles working in the area on that day. On getting to the house around 12noon on Thursday, a man came out and we asked for evidence of payment because we discovered that the house owed over N154,000. When he couldn’t produce it, we said we would disconnect the power and the man flared up.
“The mobile policeman came out, and while our official was disconnecting the power from the pole, he ordered him to come down. In fact, he dragged the official down and beat him up. In the process, the official sustained injuries and his left leg was broken. because the policeman was armed, other officials of the electricity distribution company were helpless and could only watch their colleague being brutalized.
