LAGOS POLICE LAUNCH INVESTIGATION AS JEWELLER ACCUSES ITS OFFICERS OF HARASSMENT. (PHOTO).
Lagos police launch investigation as jeweller accuses its officers of harassment The Lagos State Police Command said it has commenced an investigation into a viral video of a jeweller accusing some policemen in the Festac area of the state of harassing him. The command disclosed this in an X post on Saturday. The video, which circulated on X on Saturday morning, shows the businessman engaged in a struggle with some policemen. Later in the video, the businessman could be seen with a bloody face after allegedly sustaining a cut beside his right eye during the struggle with the police officers, The jeweller later explained that the policemen from the Festac Division had stopped him for a routine search. He said the officers accused him of peddling drugs after finding a scale on him. “I went to deliver a necklace to someone when police officers stopped and searched me in Festac, Lagos. They found nothing on me but saw the scale I use to measure gold and accused me of using...
According to PM News,the operatives of Rapid Response Squad,RRS,of the Lagos State Police Command over the weekend arrested three suspected Kidnappers fleeing from Ibadan into Lagos after collecting N3 million ransom.The Kidnappers,Adekunle Funsho {31}, Charles Ezeilo {32} and Obioha Nnaji were apprehended in Abule Egba,Lagos after kidnapping a lady and collecting N3 million ranson.The kidnappers had after collecting the ransom fled to Lagos.The police in Ibadan after discovering that the kidnappers were heading to Lagos with the victim's Toyota Highlander had radioed Lagos for assistance.RRS officials on receiving the radio signal tracked the vegiclee to Fela Shrine in Ikeja,from where the alleged suspects further moved the vehicle to a compound somewhere in Abule Egba,Lagos.It was there tha,the officers arrested a suspect before recovering the Toyota Highlander,2005 model with the registration number LND 95 EE.The first suspect assisted the police in the arrest another suspect who was later apprehended at Fela's Shrine in Ika hile another suspect simply identified as Theophilus is on the run.According to one of the suspects,Adekunle Funsho,a fashion designer around Felele,Ibadan,where it was believed the kidnapping took place,''Theophilus handed over the car to me in Ibadan and told me to look for a buyer for the car.I brought the car to Lagos because I knew that I would get a buyer quickly for the car.The instruction from him was that I sell the Highlander at N800,000''.He stated further: ''I got a buyer in Ondo State.He has bought a car from me before,a fairly clean Toyota Corolla.He bought it N550,000.I took the car to him on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway,where he paid me before moving the car away.''Charles in my friend of over five years.We met at Redeemed Church,Ogba,where I was a chorister.I gave him the car to help me warehouse it and to get a buyer .He took the car from me at Fela Shrine tto his house in Abule Egba''.The case has been taken up by Oyo State anti-kidnapping team for further investigations.
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