The Force Headquarters said it has invited the policeman seen in a viral video carrying a plate of food for a well dressed woman, identified as former Ambassador Nimota Akanbi, and following her sheepishly at a colourful event.
The Acting Force Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed this development on Wednesday after Nigerians’ outcry.
According to available information, the even took place in Kwara State.
Adejobi said: “We have seen the policeman and we will investigate the scene and act accordingly.
However, the policeman will be in Abuja to give us more facts about the incident as we are determined to curb such acts.”
The video, which hit the social media on Tuesday, had attracted a lot of criticism, with many Nigerians insisting that most police personnel had become servants to politicians, their wives and other Very Important Personalities in Nigeria.
The event, which was caught in the viral video, was said to be a Turbaning Ceremony held at Ilorin, Kwara State last weekend.
Akanbi is said to be a top official working with the National Senior Secondary Education Commission in the state.
The policeman is believed to be her orderly.
The video has caused many outraged Nigerians to take to their social media handles, calling for scrapping of the police VIP department, stressing police personnel carrying food, handbags and briefcases for VIP was not part of their professional job descriptions.
An enraged Nigerian, simply identified as Bassey, said: “Look at what our police is being used for.
“Meanwhile, the police are not enough for the common man.
“The entire country is almost up in flames partly because of inadequate policing, yet the few privileged are using the few available police officers as house keepers and personal servants.”
Since the release of the video, several journalists had been tackling Adejobi, describing the incident as shameful and asking the action the police hierarchy planned to take concerning the issue.
Reacting, Adejobi asked for further information concerning the video and promised that the police would look into the matter.
In order to identify the policeman, Adejobi said he had to work with the Kwara State Police Command Public Relations Officer and then check the police database.
VIP whose police orderly was filmed carrying plate of food speaks
Following public outcry after a police officer was seen reportedly carrying the food of his ‘madam’, the woman in question has reacted.
Former Nigeria’s ambassador to the Republic of Netherlands, Dr Nimota Nihinlola Akanbi has released a statement to address the issue which happened at a public event.
The video surfaced online on Wednesday, March 2.
In a statement released, Akanbi who is currently the chairman of the Governing Board of National Secondary School Education, clarified that the sumptuously stuffed plate of food her police orderly was seen carrying at a buffet in viral video was not hers but that of the police officer.
“The truth is that I allowed him ( police orderly) to pick his food. I am a teacher and disciplinarian,” she explained
The former envoy urged Nigerians to disregard the viral video, saying that it might be the handiwork of her detractors. She said she understands the importance and nature of the work of security operatives and that she would never do anything to demean them.
She however, did not comment on the fact that the orderly was carrying her blue purse which was placed under the plate of food.
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