*Expresses Appreciation To Leadership Of NBA Lagos Branch For Intervention
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A lawyer, who was a victim of police brutality in 2018, Thompson Oladotun has narrated his experience and encounter with the police to his colleagues amidst tears during a session at the NBA-AGC, holding at Eko Atlantic City, Lagos.
The break out session which took place so Tuesday, 23rd August, 2022, had been tagged “Spotlight on Brutality, Abuse of Office and Harassment of Lawyers by Security Agencies” was moderated by the Alternate Chairman if the NBA Security Agencies Relations Committee SARC, Mr. Alex Muoka, and was an opportunity for Mr. Oladotun to recount his ordeal.
Remarking on the significance of the platform, Mr. Oladotun expressed his gratitude to the Olumide Akpata led administration of the NBA for giving him an opportunity to share his police brutality story with his colleagues.
Narrating his experience, Mr. Oladotun said thus: “It started on February 28, 2018. I live in Ajah area of Lagos, so I had a business to close for a client as well as an appointment for a job interview so I boarded a bus going to lekki.
“Then came this man in police uniform who came to where I was siting and asked that I vacated my seat for him but I told him that there were other seats available so he could seat on any of them.
“Instead of him to respect himself and move away, he resorted to beating me “black and blue” and pushed me out of the moving vehicle.
“I landed on the express road and in the process I got my left leg fractured and was left at the mercy of spectators.
“It was a very humiliating and disgraceful experience for me.I respected that police uniform and so, I couldn’t fight back. I was made a laughing stock to the public .
“You may not be able to fathom how I felt as a human, however, I am grateful to the Lagos NBA bar in 2018 led by Mr Chukwuka Ikwuazom for his intervention
“I felt my life flash out of my body; maybe that day I could have been celebrated to a candle light procession.
“Then I thought, if this could happen to me as a lawyer, then it can happen to any lawyer out there.
According to Mr. Oladotun, his experience showed him that the attitude of police officers to run towards violence is a nemesis that has to be dealt with or would destroy the pride of the legal profession. “Ladies and gentlemen the attitudinal disposition of security agencies to violence calls for serious intervention and if not addressed in no distant time I do not see the pride we will be flaunting as legal practitioners.” He said.
Mr. Oladotun went on to call for a personality test as well as a training and retraining of officers, saying that should be requirement before they are recruited into any of security agencies.
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