Policemen that Assaulted 8 month old Pregnant Woman Face Trial

Three policemen who assaulted an eight-month pregnant woman which led to the loss of her baby in Lagos are currently undergoing orderly room trial.

The command’s spokesman, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, who made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria, said they were arrested on Tuesday after a complaint about their alleged human rights infringement.

Chika Elekawachi was reportedly brutalized by three policemen attached to the Satellite Police 
Division in Lagos on Sunday, July 19. The policemen allegedly stripped her naked after accusing her of resisting arrest. She was also assaulted before being dragged to the police station. However, her family members lhad to rush her to Safe Hands Hospital, old Ojo road, Amuwo, Lagos, after she allegedly passed out at the police station.

At the hospital, she started bleeding at about 11pm on Monday so she was rushed into the theatre for surgery. Although the baby boy was delivered on Tuesday alive, and rushed to Outreach Hospital in Festac town, Lagos, which had a functional incubator, the baby died less than 48 hours after.

DSP Kenneth Nwosu said the law would take its cause on any member of the police force that committed any crime, particularly human rights abuse but did not disclose the names of the policemen.