The Lagos state police command
has arrested the Baale of Oshoroko Village in Ibeju-Lekki area of the state,
Olusegun Oyeri, and three others identified as Aroki Badiru, Nasiru Isiaka
and Akeem Balogun. for allegedly masterminding the death of a police inspector,
Musa Sunday, and hiding his body for nine months.
According to reports, the
deceased had gone to the area to answer to a distress call on November 29th
last year. He never returned to the police station, prompting his colleagues to
go in search of him. After many months of fruitless search and investigation, a
member of the community confessed to the police that the inspector was
killed and that they were made to swear an oath of secrecy by the
Baale never to reveal what happened to him.
The community resident then took
the police to the Ibeju-Lekki water-front where the deceased was buried. Police
officers dug the grave and exhumed the remains of the deceased and his AK47
rifle. The community leader was arrested and when interrogated, denied any
wrong doing. He claimed the crime was perpetrated by one of the chiefs.
The Lagos state Commissioner of
Police, Fatai Owoseni, who confirmed the arrests, said
“Inspector Musa Sunday
disappeared from a crime scene in Ibeju-Lekki when he was, alongside other
officers, deployed to that axis from Ibeju-Lekki Free Trade Zone. In the course
of patrol, they were alerted by the community of a communal fight between two
families over land issues. Dutifully, they joined the informant but on
getting there, one of the community callously turned against the patrol team
and at the end of the fight, the team returned without Sunday. The next
day, I went there and met the traditional rulers and elders of the community to
appeal to them to release the inspector if they have him in their custody.
They
denied seeing him. We put together a team of policemen with technical
support from the Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT)
led by DSP Philips and they sustained investigations. Based on intelligence,
nine months later, his decomposed body was found buried along the waterway with
his service AK47. We swung into action and arrested the Baale of the
community and three others.
The law does not respect anyone and we use this to
send a message to criminals pretending to be custodians of our
culture. During investigation, we gathered that the Baale led the
community in swearing an oath of secrecy to cover the crime and also
refused to produce his two sons that were responsible for the killing.”
The Baale and the others would be
arraigned in court soon.
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ReplyDeleteThis baile must be an Igbo man-Arewa idiots! Every tribe has their own bad eggs. Imagine killing because of land.
ReplyDeletePls return life for life.