The family of Banjoko Ogidi of Ginti Village in Igbogbo-Ijede, Ikorodu area of Lagos State has sent a Save-Our-Soul (SOS) message to the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba; the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, over the alleged incessant arrest and detention of its family members by some lawless policemen.
The family, in a petition signed by the Head of the family/Olotu Ebi, Morufu Metimoju Olowosago and made available to newsmen alleged that the police officers had consistently been aiding and abetting an alleged notorious and dangerous land-grabber identified as Nofiu Abiodun Kasunmu.
The family noted that on Friday March 4, 2020, a team of policemen from Zone 2 Lagos Police Command led by Inspector Geofrey, now in AIG office Zone 2, invaded their palace in the company of Kasumu's thugs, beat and arrested two family members. “Despite this fact, the ACP Sola Oketunji, who ordered the illegal arrest, insisted that all the six arrested should be locked up in a cell with hardened criminals. They were illegally detained for 26 hours and forced to part with our hard earned financial resources in the name of bail. The investigation was abandoned without a report till date.
The petition further stated that on Wednesday March 30, 2022, two policemen from the Special Enquiry Bureau, Force Criminal Investigation Department , Abuja, led by Inspector Yomi of Team 8 under CSP Stanley Nwodo, laid siege near the residence of Banjoko Ogidi's family Head from 5a.m to 9a.m to effect his arrest when he stepped out for work.
“In his usual way of perverting the cause of Justice, Nofiu Abiodun Kasunmu again ran to Abuja to meet his stooges to intervene, and again aided and abetted by some retired and serving police officers. The family lamented that their various petitions to the former Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Odumosu, on the activities of the police, especially CP Olayinka Balogun yielded no result.
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