PHOTOS: LAGOS POLICE DEMOLISHED 6 SHRINES IN IKORODU...STRANGE OBJECTS FOUND !

The Lagos State commissioner of police , Edgal Imohimi, on Wednesday,20th, led a team of security personnel to demolish six shrines in Ikorodu town in Lagos state.

Items found in some of the shrines included coffins, human head sculpture, hard currencies, and other fetish materials. See more photos...

"STOP FOLLOWING RESIDENTS TO 'ATM' TO FORCEFULLY COLLECT BRIBE"~~NEW LAGOS CP WARNS

The new Lagos state top cop, Edgal Imohimi, had a briefing with commanders and Assistant commissioners in the command on Friday,September  1st  , where he issued a warning to the police superiors to warn all officers under them to desist from following residents of the state to ATM points to forcefully withdraw money which they collect as bribe.

According to Imohimi who assumed office on Thursday August 31st, his directive from the Inspector General of Police is to rid Lagos of corrupt practices amongst officers and men in the state.  He said Area commanders should know where policemen under them are being posted to and their visibility for proper policing which invariably deter criminals. He asked the commanders to involve themselves in effective patrolling and visit their men on duty at anytime to ensure compliance and effective oversight duties.

Imohimi stressed the command's stand against officers who follow civilians to bank ATMs and forcefully demand money from them, that if such practice happens again, commanders, where these crimes are committed, will be held liable for the offence of his men. The commissioner said that henceforth, officers are to lecture their men that no reports of officers taking bribes at counter level to incident cases before investigation, station guard, traffic section, should be heard off in the state again.

He noted that all the complains came from the  IGP through the PCCRU. According to Imohimi, the Lagos state government have created an enabily environment for the police to carry out their duties in the state and so the officers should ensure they work effectively. 

PHOTOS: BAALE AND THREE OTHERS ARRESTED FOR ALLEGEDLY BURYING POLICE OFFICER ALIVE IN LAGOS

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, disclosed that the command has arrested the Baale of Oshoko village, Ibeju-Lekki and three others for allegedly burying a police Inspector alive.

The police boss said: “On November 25, 2016, Inspector Musa Sunday, attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) disappeared from Ibeju-Lekki while performing his duty. During an Anti-Kidnapping patrol, Sunday and other members of his team were alerted   to a fight between two families. The families were fighting over a land. Sunday and his team responded to the distress call. On getting to the scene, one of the communities involved turned against the SARS team, and at the end of the day, Sunday didn’t return.”

Owoseni added: “The next day, I led a team of policemen to the community, to appeal to the religious leaders, traditional heads and members of the community to release Sunday, but they all denied having him in their custody.

"With the technical support of Intelligent Response Team (IRT) headed by DSP Philip, and a sustained detective activity, Sunday's corpse was recovered with his AK-47 rifle, which was buried somewhere along the waterway. Four suspects have been arrested. The Baale of Oshoko village is among the suspects.”
The CP said that investigation has revealed that the Baale led other suspects to take oath of secrecy, to say they didn’t know the whereabouts of Sunday.

He disclosed that part of those that took the oath was the Baale’s two sons, who are still at large.The Baale, who identified himself as Aroki Badiru, denied his involvement in the murder of the policeman.

Badiru said: “I was in my house, when I heard that land grabbers had entered our community. Thereafter, I heard that one of the policemen had been attacked. I called a chief on phone to ask what happened; he told me that a policeman was killed by members of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC).”

It will be recalled that Sunday’s remains were exhumed and taken to hospital for examination. He was discovered to have been tortured, his hands tied backward, before he was buried alive.
Owoseni said that the suspects would be arraigned. He reiterated that the law does not respect anyone. 

PHOTOS: MISSING POLICE OFFICER BURRED WAS ALIVE ON THE ORDER OF TRADITIONAL RULER IN LAGOS

Musa Sunday, the detective attached to the Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command, who has been missing since last November has been found buried in a shallow grave in Ibeju Lekki.

It's been discovered that Inspector Sunday, was abducted, tortured and later buried alive while on illegal duty, guarding a land under dispute at Ibeju Lekki.

Sunday and four of his men were alleged to have been drafted to guard the land by their Admin Officer (AO), at Ibeju Lekki without the knowledge of the Officer in Charge of SARS (OC) and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni. The father-of-four, with children aged 4,6,8 and 12, was reportedly trying to save a civilian guard from hoodlums when he was attacked and kidnapped while his men escaped.

Two men had been struggling for possession of the land. One of the men, identified simply as Prince, went to the SARS Admin Officer, who happened to be his friend, and asked for some officers to be assigned to guard the land for him and prevent his opponent from encroaching on the land. The Admin Officer (AO) then drafted Sunday and four other policemen without going through the proper channel of informing the OC SARS or the Lagos State Commissioner of Police. Sunday, the other policemen and some civilian guards drafted by Prince had been guarding the land for months when hoodlums employed by Prince's opponent stormed the land. Several people from both factions claiming possession of the land have been involved in fights for months which have led to several deaths.

In November last year, hoodlums from the other faction reportedly came with a bulldozer. Some of the thugs from the other faction attacked Prince's thugs and a fight ensued. Prince's faction was overpowered and one of his thugs was taken. Sunday went back to save the man and he was captured while other policemen working with Sunday and the man he just saved escaped. The Inspector's number became unavailable after he was abducted and his family members went to the Lagos State Police Command Headquarters, Ikeja, demanding to know what had happened to him.

His colleagues who escaped reported that they immediately went to Mobile Police Force (Mopol) 49, Epe for help in rescuing Sunday but nothing was done. They then went to Akodo Police Station but the DPO said she couldn’t send anyone to the area because it was a volatile axis. From there they reported to SARS, Ikeja, and for five days, no action was taken to rescue Sunday. Later, policemen started looking for Sunday. They went to Bonny Camp, Victoria Island in their search for him but the soldiers said Sunday wasn’t with them. When the OC SARS went to meet Owoseni, to inform him of the missing inspector, Owoseni demanded to know the person that deployed Sunday and his men on the illegal duty.

Sunday's phone was eventually tracked through the efforts of the Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT) operatives and that led them to Sunday's alleged killers. It was then discovered that Sunday had been tortured, starved for five days and when his men did not come after those days, they took him to the traditional ruler who instructed them to bury Sunday alive. At least five people, including the traditional ruler known as Baale have been arrested in connection with the murder. Investigation revealed that the attack and burial of Sunday was led by one Mr Balogun who is now on the run.It was Balogun who tied his hand before burying him.  Balogun's second in command, Arokin, has been arrested and it was him who confessed that Sunday was buried alive.

The suspects led police to where Sunday’s rifle was buried and also to the traditional ruler who denied knowledge of Sunday's murder. Baale was invited to the police command but rather than honour the invitation, he ran to Police Force Headquarters, Abuja but was told at Abuja to go back to Lagos and respond first to police invitation. Pathologists from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), who exhumed Sunday’s corpse said that it looked as if he was buried with his hands tied behind.

New Telegraph reports that Sunday's wife Halimat, 27, and her children are now suffering and she can no longer afford to pay their school fees. The widow, who is a housewife, lamented the lack of support from her husband's colleague and said that her children still look forward to seeing their father. She said the fateful day of the incident, she spoke with her late husband around 4 pm and he promised to come home the following day. When at night, his kids asked to speak with him, his number was no longer available and it's been that way till date.
“They were deployed there to maintain peace. We learnt that hoodlums were attacking a man, so my husband and his men moved to rescue the man. He told the other two policemen to go and put the man in the car so he could be safe.  The hoodlums pounced on my husband and took him away. Sensing danger as the hoodlums kept increasing in number, his men ran away. Since then, we have not heard from him.

“Three months after, police kept telling us that they were on the matter. We learnt they have arrested the Prince that hired the hoodlums, but nothing has happened since then. His children keep asking after him. His aged mother, who has high blood pressure, has not stopped asking for his whereabouts. We don’t know what else to tell her.”
She added:
“Nobody from the police cared to check on us, and now we don’t have money because we don’t have access to his ATM pin. I want my husband to come back. The children are suffering, and I can’t carry the load alone.”