Police Job Not Slavery – Officers Can Drink Alcohol – Spokesman Ben Hundeyin

Lagos State Police Spokesman, Benjamin Hundeyin has said police work is not slavery, hence, officers can drink alcohol responsibly.

Gatekeepers News reports that Hundeyin was reacting to photos of policemen caught on camera drinking.

He said “they have not misbehaved, they have not assaulted anybody, they have not extorted (money from) anybody, they are just drinking. Anybody can drink. Police work is not slavery, anybody can drink.”

He continued, “They were just drinking and they were drunk and that’s what makes it unprofessional, they were in uniforms but if they took the same amount of alcohol while they are off duty, while in mufti, it has not constitute an offence; they have not committed an offence.”

Hundeyin made this statement while speaking in an interview with PUNCH newspaper on Saturday.

He further said, “even the policemen that were caught taking alcohol, they were not behaving erratically, they were not misbehaving. Yes, there was a tendency that they could misbehave because they were drunk but at the point when your colleague, Dayo Oyewo, took their pictures, they were not misbehaving.”

The State Police Spokesman’s statement also comes days after House of Representatives passed a resolution to ban policemen on duty from drinking alcohol.