Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Okon Effiong, has ordered the immediate arrest of a yet-to-identified policeman seen in a viral video assaulting a man at Elibrade junction in the Emohua Local Government Area of the state.

CP Effiong also said the other policemen seen at the location while their colleague assaulted the man should be identified and arrested.

The video showed the moment a policeman holding a rifle in his left hand and a whip in his right used the whip twice on the man’s leg and also slapped him twice, asking him in pidgin to keep moving.

Effiong assured members of the public that the police officers would be investigated in line with extant rules underlying the conduct of police personnel, adding that appropriate sanctions would follow.