{"id":308884,"date":"2021-01-28T13:28:07","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T12:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=308884"},"modified":"2021-01-28T13:30:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T12:30:27","slug":"police-officers-arrested-for-allegedly-assaulting-5-nigerians-in-orlu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=308884","title":{"rendered":"Police officers arrested for allegedly assaulting 5 Nigerians in Orlu"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Mr Nasiru Mohammed, has confirmed that some officers of the state command have been arrested for allegedly assaulting five civilians in Orlu.<br \/>\nThe commissioner confirmed the arrest in a statement issued on Thursday by the spokesman of the command, SP Orlando Ikeokwu.<br \/>\nMohammed said those arrested were spotted in a viral video committing the act at Banana Junction in Orlu.<br \/>\nHe revealed that disciplinary action will be taken against the officers for unprofessional misconduct.<br \/>\nHe advised the public to report any unprofessional conduct of officers of the command to the Assistant Commissioner of Police, XSquad, Public Compliant Bureau or to the office of the Commissioner of Police.<br \/>\nMohammed condemned the \u201cinhuman treatment and assault on the yet-to-be identified persons in the viral video.\u201d<br \/>\nAccording to him, the officers were seen forcing five persons to lie on the floor, flogging them in the process, which is unethical, unprofessional and unacceptable.<br \/>\n\u201cThe command, while condemning the action, wishes to inform the general public that the officers have been identified, arrested and disciplinary action commenced,\u201d he added.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commissioner of Police in Imo State, Mr Nasiru Mohammed, has confirmed that some officers of the state command have been arrested for allegedly assaulting five civilians in Orlu. The commissioner confirmed the arrest in a statement issued on Thursday by the spokesman of the command, SP Orlando Ikeokwu. Mohammed said those arrested were spotted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":308885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,707,16284,61],"class_list":["post-308884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-imo","tag-orlu","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/308885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}