27th October, 2010
Publicity Secretary of Isiu Youth Development Movement, Mr. Sola Opeyemi, has lamented police inability to arrest the increasing wave of kidnapping and disappearance of innocent residents of Isiu community in Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria.
Speaking with journalists during a tour of the area, Opeyemi appealed to the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Marvel Akpoyibo, to come to the aid of the community by arresting the hoodlums spreading terror in the community.
According to the Isiu youths spokesman, several residents have gone missing and attempt to seek police intervention in their disappearance have always met a brickwall.
He identified some missing residents as Mojeed, Isiaka and Owolabi, a JSS 3 student of Isiu Grammar School. They are all sons of Chief Yekini Owolegbon, the Babaloja of Isiu.
Opeyemi also called on the police boss to call some of his men, who engage in discriminate arrest of residents, to order.
He disclosed that a notorious Chief Superintendent of Police attached to the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit, Force CID ‘D’ Department, Area 11, Abuja was fond of arresting Isiu residents and detaining them at the Dopemu Police Station, Lagos.
P.M.NEWS gathered that one of the residents, Mr. Afuwape, a.k.a. Alado was recently arrested by the CSP and detained at Dopemu Police Station where he was tortured.
The maltreatment, P.M.NEWS gathered, has already been reported to their lawyer, Mr. Giwa Amu, to seek redress.
