A viral video showing a Metropolitan Police officer advising a group of Nigerian women not to report their abusive husbands to the police but to “manage it” has been subjected to investigation by the Metropolitan Police Department in the United Kingdom.
The video is said to resurface on social media six years after it was filmed.
The video, recorded at Divine Restoration International Church in Camberwell in 2018, captures a police officer addressing an audience predominantly made up of women, with three officers standing by.
This has ignited outrage among abuse charities, The Mirror of UK reports.
In the footage, viewed by the newspaper, the officer can be heard speaking both English and Yoruba language, while standing at a pulpit discussing issues like knife crime and how some sons might ignore their mothers in favour of their fathers.
The officer allegedly goes on to say that Nigerian women, upon arriving in the UK, begin acting “rudely” towards their husbands, and should refrain from calling the police on them, but rather “manage it.”
Police have confirmed that the footage has been referred to the Metropolitan Police’s standards unit for review.
