Many arrested in Rivers community for flogging police officer

The fierce looking policemen had stormed the community, Tuesday, around 4:00pm with about eight vans.

The gallant police men who had arrived the community on orders from the hierarchies were led by the cop, Joshua Nyian, who was reportedly caught taking the illicit drug and flogged in the community.

But, the police in the state said Nyian reported a case of assault and Stealing by youths of Nkpolu.

The Public Relations Officer of the Command, Grace Iringe-Koko, a Superintendent of Police, in a statement in Port Harcourt, preceding the invasion of the community, noted that the police officer was assaulted.

She said: “On 24th August 2025 at about 1:40 p.m., one Inspector of Police , Joshua Nyian, attached to Woji Division, reported a case of assault and stealing.

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“According to the report, at about 10:20 a.m. on the same date, while returning from work, the officer stopped at Nkpolu to see his woman friend, who is pregnant for him. He was suddenly accosted by the Nkpolu Youth President, the Community Chairman, and about twenty youths. They allegedly assaulted him by beating him up, dragged him to the main road, seized his police identity card and phone, recorded him on video, and forcefully collected the sum of seventy-eight thousand naira (₦78,000) from him.

“The officer further alleged that the Youth President has been making advances to his woman friend, which may have prompted the attack.

“The officer’s statement was voluntarily recorded, and a medical form was issued to him for treatment. Frantic efforts are ongoing for the youth president with others involved to come forward with their evidence.”