Nigeria, July 19 -- A Lagos-based lawyer, Yakubu Eleto, has narrated how he was allegedly maltreated by police officers at the Lagos State House of Assembly on Friday morning.

Narrating the incident on his Facebook page, the lawyer said he went to the House to submit a letter regarding a court case on the forthcoming local government elections in Lagos State when he was assaulted.

Mr Eleto said the officers attached to the House seized his phones, dragged his shirt, pulled him and "carried him like a five-year-old boy to the Assembly gate into a waiting police van with plate no RRS 387 LA," and was whisked to the nearest police station.

"They eventually dragged me on the floor, tear-gassed me, poured pepper spray on my face, brutalized...