Friday afternoon in Nigeria's capital, Abuja was not too good for Honourable Oyetunde Ojo, a member of the Federal House of Representatives and Chairman of the House Committee on Communications, as he was heavily brutalised by security agents attached to the country's Vice President, Namadi Sambo, an architect.
The Vice President was on his way to the National Mosque, Abuja while Honourable Ojo was on his way out of Nanet Hotel trying to access his way to the Abuja airport on his way to Lagos to join his family for the long sallah weekend.
The VP's security aides who didn't give any indication that the VP was on that route, less than 50 metres to the mosque, seized the honourable member, beat him up, wounded him on both eyes and bundled him to the official residence of the Vice President where he was detained for over an hour. All these were even after he had presented his photo ID as a member of the federal parliament.
Several ordinary Nigerians have been through this, or even worse situation before and even now. Several thousands have been carelessly murdered by police personnels without sanctions. Not a few Nigerians have been murdered for refusing to give bribes to policemen at countless check points dotting every road in Nigeria.
Its important now, than ever before, that members of the National Assembly should enact stronger laws that will prescribe stiff penalty for the highly uncivilised conducts of these clearly unprofessional law enforcement agency.
I also suggest that Honourable Ojo, who is married to one of the daughters of Nigeria's main opposition political party leader and former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, should himself initiate a bill for an act of parliament against police brutality.
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