Yinka Ayefele Weeps As NSCDC Officer Punches Him, Threatens To Shoot

Veteran Nigerian singer, Yinka Ayefele has reportedly being bodily assaulted by an operative of Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC).

Based on Each day Publish, the singer was mentioned to have being punched on the lips throughout an altercation with a yet-to-be-identified officer.

Sources advised journalists that the officer additionally threatened to shoot the singer after resisting his forceful try to take cash from Ayefele’s automobile.

One of many eyewitnesses mentioned, “The incident occurred in Iloro Ekiti, the place he (Ayefele) got here to entertain company at an occasion. The officer had made an try to take cash from his automobile however when Ayefele resisted him, he thereafter punched the singer within the mouth.

“When the singer referred to as his safety element to cease him he additionally threatened to shoot him earlier than the intervention of his colleagues.

“This assault on the extremely revered music producer is condemnable, the matter needs to be investigated and justice served”.

When contacted, Ayefele confirmed the bodily assault on him by the NSCDC officer.

He acknowledged that he wept profusely as a result of he felt he was handled that manner as a result of he’s bodily challenged.

He mentioned: “I used to be shifting out in my automobile after entertaining company, the officer abruptly dipped his hand into my automobile to take my cash however I resisted him and advised him what he did was very incorrect.

That was how he gave me a punch on my mouth, I had lower on my lips and blood began gushing out. Once I referred to as my safety element to carry him he stood within the entrance of my automobile corking his rifle and threatening to shoot me.

“At that time, his colleagues got here and I defined what he did to them. Whereas making an attempt to protect him, they mentioned why am I combating them, that I’m a public determine and I don’t wish to give them one thing? I mentioned if I didn’t wish to give him one thing, I wouldn’t have stopped, wind down my automobile. I’ve settled the world boys and others. I wept profusely, as a result of they did this to me as a result of I’m bodily challenged.

“They later introduced the man who got here to gather cash for the world boys mentioned to have been overwhelmed whereas making an attempt to take the cash away, telling me to see how he was overwhelmed and attacked him with sharp objects simply to border me up however I’ve put my lawyer within the know”.