Over two months after his encounter with policemen from the Lamgbasa Police Station in Ajah, memories of torture are still fresh in Akeem Adejumo’s psyche – a nasty past he wished was never part of hi
s life.
He said, “The elderly man was thanking me after dropping him off when the policemen stopped me and accused me of driving a stolen vehicle. They said they had been looking for the Jeep for the past two months. I told them the vehicle belongs to my dad which he has been using for about two years. One of them said I was arguing with them and slapped me. Another officer kicked the old man who tried to beg them on my behalf.
He said he felt humiliated when some other policemen at the station joined the team and insisted that he stole the vehicle, adding that he was later released when his father went to the station to claim the vehicle. Gruelling as it was, City Round learnt that such harassment has become the lot of many residents, especially youths in Badoore, Abraham Adesanya, Ilaje, among other communities in Ajah.
The Secretary, Eti Osa Indigenous Resettlement Youths Forum, Taoreed Oladepo, lamented that men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad has become a burden to many people. In another scenario he witnessed within the community, he said SARS operatives stopped two corps members in a car and asked for the papers of the vehicle.
A community leader in Oke-Ira Kekere, Ajah, Mr Jackson David, alleged that while extorting money from motorists along Ado Road, men of the Anti-Cultism unit usually caused traffic.
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