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| Victim |
Lagos State Police Command has
arrested a man for dehumanizing his employee and transporting him to Abuja.
The employer, Engineer Wole Odunuga,
was arrested after officers of Metro Police chased his vehicle, a white Toyota
Hilux Van with the registration number SMK 707 CA, from Ketu/Ojota Flyover to 7
– Up before Toll gate.
The officer had on Wednesday night
at around 7:20 p.m. stopped the vehicle but the lone occupant defied the
police order and sped off.
After forcing the vehicle to a stop
around 7 – Up, the officer were shocked to see a man, later identified as
Daniel Dabis, with his legs and hands tied to his back and put at the back of
the Hilux.
During preliminary investigation,
the driver of the vehicle claimed the victim stole his money from his Abuja
home before he absconded to Lagos, so he was transporting him back to Abuja
before he was stopped.
He stated “I been searching for him
all over places, which took me to his village in Plateau state. It was one of
his friends that told me he was in Lagos where he was hiding. Precisely, I was
hinted he was staying at Mile 12 Market, Ketu.
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| Accused |
I drove down from Abuja and I met
him at Mile 12 Market, Ketu, where I picked him up”.
He continued; “initially, I had
taken him down to Ketu Divisional Police Station, Lagos, to incident the
matter, but the officers at the station declined to detain him there. So, I had
no option than to take him back to Abuja”.
Odunuga, a resident of Pent City
Estate, Abuja, added: “that was what I was trying to do before I was accosted by
the police team on routine Patrol under the Ketu/Ojota flyover",
But according to Daniel Dabis, “what
I took from him were a ladder and a wheel barrow. He is estimating the cost of
the wheel barrow at N110,000 and the ladder, N90,000, that is all I took from
him”.
He has because of that tied my legs
and hands to my back. His plans were to drive me to Abuja in the officers, he
would have killed me and dump my body at the road side”
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