Police to pay 20.25 million naira to a woman

- A certain Mrs Sola Aregbesola was allegedly brutalized by policemen in Ekiti state
- The police command in the state has been asked to pay N20.25million in damages.

- A High Court in Ekiti deemed it fit that the 51-year-old woman be recompensed, after she was illegally detained and brutalized.

A state High Court sitting in Ikere Ekiti on Monday, April 3, has awarded a sum of N20million damages against Ado-Ekiti zone of the Ekiti state police command, over illegal detention and brutalization of a 51-year old woman, Mrs Sola Aregbesola.

Vanguard reports that the presiding Judge, Justice Olusegun Ogunyemi, also awarded another two hundred and fifty thousand naira cost against the police, an amount which covers the expenses spent on medical treatment as a result of the unlawful detention and beating she suffered in the hands of the cops.

The reporters gathered that the plaintiff, Aregbesola, a resident of Okebedo in Ilawe Ekiti, Ekiti West Local Government Area, was beaten, tortured , wounded, chained and detained for seven two hours at Ilawe police station last year October over an issue that bordered on an illicit love affair between her husband and another woman.

Aregbesola who was subsequently picked up by the police, following complaints lodged by her suspected husband’s mistress, had before the arrest, suffered an attack from the accused who allegedly poured hot soup on her face, which inflicted serious bodily injuries on her, causing deformation to her person.