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Things People Don’t Know About Me–Sunday Erhabor, Assaulted Policeman

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Things people don&&num;8217&semi;t know about Sunday<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> has stumbled on salient traits and things people are unaware about Assistant Superintendent of Police&comma; ASP Sunday Erhabor&comma; a Police officer attached to the Rapid Response Squad &lpar;RRS&rpar; of the Lagos State Command &comma; who was assaulted by one Victor Ebhomenyen at Four Point by Sheraton Hotel&comma; Oniru on Saturday&comma; April 17 while on duty&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The incident that led to ASP Sunday Erhabor’s assault was presented by the police in a statement signed by spokesman&comma; Olumuyiwa Adejobi&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the statement&comma; Adejobi said&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The command has deemed it necessary and responsible to react and set the record straight on the incident that was captured in a video that went viral on the social media on Saturday&comma; April 17&comma; where two men were repeatedly assaulting an officer on duty and creating a scene on the road at Four Point&comma; Oniru&comma; Victoria Island&comma; Lagos&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;To set the record straight&comma; on Saturday&comma; at about 10&colon;30am&comma; one ASP Erhator Sunday&comma; and team attached to the Rapid Response Squad &lpar;RRS&rpar; of the command&comma; who were on a convoy movement to drop off policemen at their various beats across the state&comma; blocked and stopped a white Hyundai <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">SUV&comma; MUS251EH<&sol;a> facing the convoy on &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;one way”&comma; driven by the suspect&comma; Victor&comma; at Four Point Hotel&comma; Oniru&comma; Victoria Island&comma; Lagos&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When the police stopped the vehicle&comma; the occupants&comma; one Victor Ebhomenye and Etinosa Obaywana&comma; angrily came down&comma; confronted and violently assaulted ASP Erhator Sunday&comma; inflicting severe bodily injuries on him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The officer&comma; who was armed with his official Ak47 riffle&comma; displayed a high level of professionalism amidst fierce provocations by resisting the temptation of using his rifle on the suspect&period; The prime suspect&comma; Victor&comma; is in the police custody at the State Criminal Investigation Department Panti&comma; for investigation and prosecution as and when due&comma; while effort is on to arrest his fleeing accomplice&comma; Etinosa&comma; who has been identified&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;According to the provisions of the Lagos State Transport Sector Reform Law&comma; 2018&comma; the vehicle has been impounded and taken to the Lagos State Taskforce Office&comma; Oshodi&comma; for appropriate penalty&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Two days after&comma; specifically on Monday&comma; April 19&comma; Lagos State Governor&comma; Mr&period; Babajide Sanwo-Olu&comma; approved a meeting with the assaulted police officer alongside the State Commissioner of Police&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">Hakeem Odumosu&period;<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;He commended Sunday Erhabor for displaying a high level of professionalism and calmness by restraining himself from taking laws into his hands&comma; despite being assaulted while trying to arrest Ebhomenyen for driving against the traffic&period;Sanwo-Olu honoured him with Lagos State honour award&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Since then&comma; other Nigerians&comma; mostly youths who believe Sunday Erhabor deserves encouragement contributed almost a million Naira for his personal upkeep&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Elated by these developments&comma; the ASP Erhabor&comma; in a narrative&comma; disclosed salient traits about him which are not known to the public&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The narrative of <strong>things<&sol;strong> people don&&num;8217&semi;t know about him is presented below unedited&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’ve not shot a single person since I joined police in 1992&period;<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>I am always calm&period; I neither don&&num;8217&semi;t drink nor smoke&period; I drank a little before but I can&&num;8217&semi;t drink at all now&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was born in 1967 and I have just about 5 years to retirement&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am a core Bini man and I treat all these young boys as my children&period; <&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>As he was beating me&comma; I told my boys to retreat because they could have wasted him&period; <&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But I told them to record it&period; The boy was shouting have you forgotten EndSars&quest;&quest;&quest; The truth is that something is wrong with the boy&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I have never killed&period; My gun is to make you to fear&period; I was once slapped at Festac Town by a woman in the presence of her husband just because I stopped them&period; I only made her to slap her husband&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I joined the Police as a constable in 1992 at <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wsj&period;com&sol;">Ikeja Police College<&sol;a>&period; Nobody recommended me&comma; I just joined the queue and registered&period; I dropped out from UNIBEN because of lack of money&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I remarried 3 years ago because my three children have come of age&period; They are just like that boy that beat me up&period; How do I waste him&quest;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The governor gave me an award and we took pictures&period; My children are proud of me&comma;<&sol;em>” he narrated&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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