Nigeria, May 12 -- The Nigeria Police Force has arrested and detained some police operatives who were filmed assaulting some passengers in Abia State, Nigeria's South-east.

The police spokesperson in Abia State, Maureen Chinaka, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

An X user, @BuddyJnrrr, narrated that some police operatives without name tags, on Saturday afternoon, flagged down a mini bus he and his brother had boarded.

"They ordered me to step down, which I peacefully did. Immediately, they collected another passenger's phone and began interrogating him aggressively about what he does for a living," he said in the X post on Saturday night.

The X user, who claimed to be a student of the Abia State University Uturu (ABSU), said on...