DAILY POST
The Osun State Police Command has debunked a viral video which showed policemen beating a woman, describing it as an old video.
In the video which has since gone viral on social media, the woman that was beaten, Tola Abdulazeez was standing beside a police patrol van.
In a statement by the Osun Commissioner of Police, Patrick Kehinde Longe through the spokesperson of the Command, Yemisi Opalola and obtained by DAILY POST, she stated that the trending video on social media was an incident that occured in Iwo during the COVID-19 lockdown in April, 2020.
The statement reads, “The Police Command wishes to inform the general public that the trending video on social media was the video of an incident that happened in Iwo during the COVID-19 lockdown in April, 2020.
“The Policemen involved were made to face the force disciplinary measures and they have been sanctioned accordingly.
“The police Command wishes to state that the video is misinforming and misleading, which is a calculated attempt to incite members of the public against police…
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