Miscreants believed to acting under the influence of alcohol have reportedly stabbed a police officer with broken bottle for failure to buy them drinks at a birthday party in Akure, Ondo State capital.
The incident happened at a popular eatery and the police officer was in mufti.
The State Police Command Public Relations Officer, Femi Joseph who gave the disclosures in a statement recalled that “The boys who were apparently drunk and appeared like miscreants, insisted that the officer must buy them drinks or leave the scene, or in the alternative be ready to be killed just like they did to his colleague inspector sometime ago.”
Joseph was reacting to a trending story titled “Police sergeant stabs self, eight others with broken bottle in Ondo”.
In his press statement, he said “The attention of the Ondo State Police Command has been drawn to a story trending on the social media, captioned “Police sergeant stabs self, eight others with broken bottle in Ondo”.
“This story is nothing but a blatant lie from the pit of hell craftly concocted to deceive the reading Public. To set the record straight, there was a social gathering Organised by a friend to One of our policemen, Sergeant Taiwo Orishalade at a popular eatery in Akure to Celebrate the birthday of his girlfriend.
“The police officer who was not on official duty and also not in uniform sat with some other invited guests at the party. At a point, some boys who apparently identified the Police Officer even though he was in Mufti, approached him to buy drinks for them. The Policeman humbly told them that he was just invited by a friend to the party and besides, he did not have enough money on him to accede to their request.
“The boys who were apparently drunk and appeared like miscreants, insisted that the officer must buy them drinks or leave the scene, or in the alternative be ready to be killed just like they did to his colleague inspector sometime ago.
“The officer pleaded with them to take things calmly, but in a twinkle of an eye, one of the boys slapped him while the other one took a bottle smashed it and stabbed the Sergeant with it .
“Naturally,he had to fight back which resulted into injuries to the three of them . The three of them involved in the incident including the policeman were taken to the hospital, treated and discharged.
“Meanwhile, the Commissioner of Police Ondo State CP Undie Adie has ordered a full-scale investigation into the incident.
” Our preliminary investigation revealed that only three people were involved in the incident ,the policeman and two others and not nine people as beign bandied buy some section of the media.
“The other three involved were Adegoke Tapere and Oladeji Cardoso.It must be added that all efforts to invite the two boys involved to come and give statement to the Police have not yielded any positive result as they have bluntly refused to turn themselves in at the Police station.
“The general public is hereby enjoined to disregard the wild exaggeration of the story why the Command continues with the investigation of the incident.”