The Ogun State Police Command has reacted to a viral video of a young lady who was naked and barking like a dog in a police cell in the state.
A video of the lady, whose name has yet to be identified, surfaced online on Friday.
The lady was said to have stripped herself and barked like a dog in the cell after she was alleged to have been spiritually and diabolically used by a suspected internet fraudster, popularly called Yahoo boy, in the state.
Reacting to the incident, the Ogun State Police Command, in a statement issued by its spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the young lady was brought to the police station naked, adding that she was acting violently, which made the police lock her in the cell.
Oyeyemi noted that the lady has since been taken to the hospital for treatment, noting that the alleged internet fraudster has been arrested by police operatives.
The police spokesperson stated: “She was brought into the police station naked and was very difficult to control because she was acting violently hence she was kept in the cell.
“Immediately she was brought to the station, her parents were contacted and she was taken to the hospital for medical attention with the help of the police, while the alleged Yahoo boy was immediately arrested for interrogation.
“The case which attracted multitude of people to the station was transferred to the State Criminal investigation department for discreet investigation on the order of Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole.
“The Command was surprised and embarrassed to see the video of the victim circulating on social media. The height of the embarrassment was the fact that the said video was recorded while the victim who was then naked and uncontrollable was in police cell.”
Oyeyemi added that the Ogun State Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has ordered an investigation to unravel the source of the video and how it became “a subject of social media discussion”.
“It is barbaric, uncivilised and despicable circulating such video on social media as such will in no small measure denigrate the human dignity of the victim which might be another source of psychological trauma for her.
“The Command has therefore vowed to deal with whoever found to be the source of the video and those behind its circulation on social media in the most decisive manner notwithstanding the status of the person,” the police spokesman said.
