Ekiti police arrest suspects over ‘false’ robbery video against officers

The Ekiti State Police Command has arrested some travellers for allegedly obstructing police officers on duty and spreading false claims that officers attacked and robbed them along Awo-Iropora Road, Igede-Ekiti.
The arrests followed a video circulating on social media in which four passengers accused officers of the Safer Highway Patrol of threatening them with knives and cutlasses, assaulting and robbing them.
In a statement on Saturday, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the command, SP Sunday Abutu, described the allegations as false, misleading and unfounded.
Abutu said preliminary investigation showed that no officer was armed with a knife or cutlass, no passenger w...