A policeman threatened to shoot a man he was having an argument with while owing to accuse the man of being a cultist without proof in a recently shared clip.

The video EQ saw on Sunday was shot at night. It happened in Benin, the capital city of Edo State.

“I go fire you, i go talk say you be cultist”-Benin police officer threatens during an argument with some young men on the road late in the evening at GRA, Benin pic.twitter.com/UJlqBSq0U8— Oyindamola🙄 (@dammiedammie35) November 24, 2024

“Wey you. See, I go rubbish this guy,” the policeman said to another man beside him.

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While the reason for the argument was unknown, some of the other men could be seen trying to pacify and appeal to the policeman.

“Make we play am rough?,” the uniformed man said as he cocked his gun.

“I go talk say you be cultist.”

“Make we play am rough?,” he asked repeatedly.

“I go fire you talk say you be cultist. I go fire you. Everybody know for Benin. I go fire you. You dey crase? You dey mad?” he repeated aggressively.

Despite the efforts of the bystanders to calm the policeman down, he did not withhold his threats.

Police brutality and maltreatment has continued to thrive in Nigeria despite personal and collective efforts to curb it.

EQ reported on Wednesday about a man who was abducted by policemen in Lagos in an attempt to get to his cousin whom they suspected had purchased a stolen phone.

In an October report, Amnesty International said that, four years after the 2020 EndSars protest, it has continued to receive reports about the Nigerian police on unlawful detention, extortion, torture and extrajudicial killings almost everyday.
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