Some of the policemen attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, are currently on trial for maltreating a member of the public in Lagos.

According to the Lagos State Police Command, the policemen were arrested following an online news alleging that a man had been shot by some operatives of Squad.

Police Public Relations Officer, Chike Oti who made this known, clarified that the victim was not shot but suffered respiratory blockage due to the tear-gas he inhaled.

Oti, a Superintendent of Police also said the attention of the Commissioner of Police, Imohimi Edgal, was drawn to the incident in an online news that a yet-to-be-identified man had allegedly been shot by operatives of the Squad at Chinese town, Ojota.

According to him, based on this report, the Commissioner of Police, immediately, activated the Command X-Squad section in collaboration with the Divisional Police Officer, Ogudu Division, Chief Superintendent of Police Gbenga Olorunfemi, to fish out the policemen involved in matter.

He said their findings showed that the victim by name, Ademuwagun Temitope Solomon, was not shot by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad as reported by the online media, saying he suffered from the inhalation of tear-gas spray, a.k.a pepper spray, occasioned by a neighbourhood police patrol team attached to Area-H- Command, Ogudu, Lagos.

Oti however said the investigating team had arrested and detained the policemen involved on the orders of the Police Boss, saying the trial of the policemen had started and if found guilty of offences of incivility to a member of the public and unlawful exercise of authority, they may face punishment as severe as dismissal.