An Ado-Ekiti-based man in Southwest Nigeria, Joshua Peter, has appealed for the intervention and protection of the Ekiti State Chief Judge and Commissioner of Police in the state from the continued “harassment and trump-up charges” foisted on him by policemen from Odo-Ado police station. He accused the Divisional Police Officer of the station of framing him over a case he had with herdsmen destroying his farm two years ago. According to Peter, he had in the past sued the police authorities for shielding herders whose cows destroyed his farm.
Nigerian Man Accuses Police In Ekiti Of Illegal Detention, Framing Him For Attempted Murder After Reporting Invasion Of Farmland By HerdsmenHe accused the Divisional Police Officer of the station of framing him over a case he had with herdsmen destroying his farm two years ago.
An Ado-Ekiti-based man in Southwest Nigeria, Joshua Peter, has appealed for the intervention and protection of the Ekiti State Chief Judge and Commissioner of Police in the state from the continued “harassment and trump-up charges” foisted on him by policemen from Odo-Ado police station.He accused the Divisional Police Officer of the station of framing him over a case he had with herdsmen destroying his farm two years ago.
He continued, “Since he said he is a Pastor and from Edo State, we asked him to follow a particular road and go straight and I asked the son to beg the father that night that he will not smoke and run out of the house again and immediately the son prostrated and apologized to the father that he won't do that again and also to all the landlords at that night, we now asked him to be going and not branch anywhere, so he left and all the landlords and landladies went inside, not up to 2hours...
“The only thing the IPO told me was that he is taking me to court by 9:00 am, and I ask him how do we go to court when he hasn’t investigated the matter, he said I should not worry that when we get there, I will know, then one policewoman gave my wife a number that he is the lawyer that will help defend me in the case that she should call him, so the woman called the man with her phone and gave to my wife to speak with him, so the police brought 2 bike man and carried me to court.
“And the suspects in my mind are the man that came to my house in the night and the policemen at Odo Ado station, when I went inside the farm, I found a rope there which was not there before, also the man told me he knows me and my family very well and he knows my house of which he said he missed his way that very night and the policemen at the station told me that it was time for them to deal with me, and they also said it in court, now they have done their worst, my generator is missing...
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