Sunny Blu Opukiri, shared videos and photos of the incident that occurred close to an Access Bank Branch in the state capital.
A gospel musician in Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State on Monday shared his experience of alleged police brutality.
He said the police were seen harassing the driver of a commercial rickshaw (keke marwa), accusing the man of parking in a wrong place meanwhile he had not broken any rule.
He said the policemen were already beating up the keke rider when he protested on his behalf.
“Immediately I tried to speak out while the gazing crowd was murmuring, the officer that was using his gun wrongly now faced me, held me by my pants and rough-handled me real good dragging me to the van, saying he would teach me a lesson for supporting the innocent man,” he said.
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