A Nigerian police officer is in hot water online after a video surfaced of him allegedly assaulting a married woman in a heated road dispute — in the presence of her husband and child.
The scuffle, which was captured in a now-viral video shared on X (formerly Twitter), shows the officer involved in a scuffle with the woman.
In the escalating situation, the woman and her young daughter were seen clinging to the officer’s uniform, apparently trying not to let him turn his back.
The exact details leading to the fight are unknown, but the video has generated outrage throughout Nigeria, with most people condemning the actions of the officer and the general state of policing in Nigeria.
Some of the tweets from users:
- @olusholaspecia: “Why are they waiting for something bad to happen to someone before they can stop them?”
- @_EWNS: “These people no de do any training walai. None of them get good approach. Na to de ask ‘who goes you’ or ‘who are you.’”
- @DataRefines: “That’s Nigerian Police for you. He was even shouting ‘post it, post it.’ Very anyhow people.”
- @peter_achi76869: “E no get as e wan be I will break the police idiot’s head and face the dirty law but I will make sure his head is never the same. The face too. Fucking bastards.”
- @Eugene0588: “My eye dey pain me? Because all through the video all I could see was the ladies dragging the officer’s shirt… so how is the officer beating her? Abi another video dey?”
- @lemekeosborn1: “If this were me, it will not even reach the Internet. Na the police man go dey explain with POP for him neck how Tiger run into him for bush. Cos he won’t even remember what happened to him. My wife?
