The Lagos couple who was tortured and molested by a police officer are now treated as victims while the officer is a free man.
The Lagos couple allegedly tortured and brutalized
by a power-drunk police officer on Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014,
around the Lekki axis of the state, Ejeh and Grace Smith, have now been
made the culprits in the case as the police authorities have freed the
officer, Dada Ogunsanya, while Smith has been put in detention.
A newspaper gather that Smith who is being detained at the Ikoyi Police Division,
has been put under pressure to admit that he was a criminal who was
resisting arrest at the time of the incident.
The
report has it that Smith was initially arrested by the Lion Building
Police Division for allegedly receiving stolen diesel. When the Ikoyi
division heard about the case after Ejeh had been granted bail, he was
rearrested and brought before some selected journalists.
The
action, it was learnt, was targeted at rubbishing earlier reports
indicting Ogunsanya and the then Ikoyi Divisional Police Officer, Aisha
Haruna.
While Ejeh is currently languishing in the
police cell, Ogunsanya is a free man as the police panel set up to
investigate him say he is innocent of the allegations against him.
Ejeh’s wife, Grace, narrated her husband's plight so far:
"Last
week, I returned from work and I saw a 25-litre keg of diesel in the
house. My husband said a security man in the next compound wanted to
sell it to him. He explained that the security man said he did not have
money on him.
My husband told the man that he would help him sell the fuel, as he had no use of the product."
It was gathered that the security man had stolen the fuel from his employer, which was later detected through a CCTV camera.
Policemen from the Lion Building division were said to have arrested Smith after the suspect mentioned his name.
Grace continued:
"After
we paid N15, 000 for Smith’s bail in the Lion Building Division, the
police said he should be taken to the Ikoyi Police Division, that the
owner of the case wanted it transferred there.
The lawyer representing the complainant wanted to withdraw the case, but the police said the case should go on.
The
police then asked my husband to accept that he is a criminal, so that
they can rubbish whatever we said they did to us. They also invited some
journalists to interview him."
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