There was a mild drama at the Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos
on Monday as policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department
filed an application seeking to remand #EndSARS protester, Eromosele Adene, for
an extra 30 days.
The policemen had last week arrested Eromosele in Ikeja and
taken him to the police command headquarters and then transferred him to the
Area F Command before detaining him at the SCID, Panti. He was last Monday
flown to Abuja and detained for seven days before being brought back to Lagos
on Sunday.
However, rather than charge him, the policemen secretly
approached a Magistrate, O.A Salau, without the consent of his lawyer and
applied for a remand order to detain him for an extra 30 days.
Eromosele’s lawyer, Mr. Tunde Jinadu, who was at the SCID,
was told by policemen that his client was no longer in custody.
However, Jinadu immediately received word from concerned
persons about what the police were up to.
Speaking with The PUNCH, he said, “We were not served. We
were not called that he was being brought to SCID. An ACP told me they didn’t
know where he was. This sharp practice of the police needs to stop. They just
wanted to shut us out. That was how they flew him to Abuja last week without my
knowledge.
“Luckily, some good people informed me that he (Eromosele)
had been taken to a magistrate court. Thank God I have a car. I was able to
quickly arrive at the court.”
On arrival at the court, the policemen were said to have
been shocked and wondered how the lawyer was able to get information on what
was happening.
The lawyer added, “The police asked the magistrate for an
order to remand him for 30 days despite the fact that he had already spent 12
days in their custody.
“We tendered a medical report from Eko Hospital as regards
the liver complication and immune system and we made an oral application for
bail. And we notified the magistrate
that he (Eromosele) had been moved from one detention facility to the other and
one state to the other.”
The magistrate subsequently fixed the ruling for Tuesday.
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