MICHAEL AKINOLA
A resident of Ogun State, Kazeem Solabi, has decried what he described as an attempt to blackmail the Police in order to incite them against his family.
Kazeem therefore, condemned the viral video on the internet, where a resident of Ologede Village, Sokoto Road in Atan, Lucky Agunnge, accused the Police of aiding land grabbing.
Lucky, in the viral video had accused the Police in Atan of releasing alleged land grabbers, who attacked him.
The resident said, ” I am disappointed in what our people have turned the social media into. They now see it as a tool to manipulate people around them”.
“The man in the said video is supposed to be one of my family’s tenants but he bought the land from the judgement debtor.”
“We had a case up to the Supreme Court and my family won. It is expected that those who are affected by the judgement should do the necessary things by ratifying their documents.”
“Others in the area are cooperating with us but this man, Mr. Lucky, insisted that he would not pay us and we tried to talk to him. He was always violent and unleashed his dog on us.”
“Some days ago, we tried to talk to him again and he unleashed his dog on us and he was violently trying to hold unto us so that the dog can attack us.”
“We freed ourselves from him and escaped from the dog only for him to return with Policemen and accused us of attacking him.”
“As a law abiding person, I volunteered myself to go with them to the Police station. But surprisingly, on our way to the Police station, he started hitting me in the Police van and inflicted serious injury on my nose and face. The Policemen were disappointed and they chastised him.”
“When we got to the Police station, the DPO saw the two of us and instructed his officers to give the two of us medical reports to go and treat ourselves and that we should return to the station.”
“I am still recovering from the injury he inflicted on me when I got a report that he had gone online to make false accusations against us and even indicted the Police.”
“There at the station, he confessed to the DPO that he was the one that bit me in the leg and also the one that punched me in the face.”
“When the DPO was even threatening to arraign both of us in Court, he was the one that appealed that he should not do so for now. He promised to return to the Police station. They are still expecting us.”
A Police source in the state, who pleaded anonymity said, ” It is true that he was at the station to report a case of assault on him but he also assaulted the other man even in the presence of Policemen”.
“Already, there was a report against him that he was unleashing his dog on people in the area and threatening them.”
The Police source also stated, “The case is still on. The parties were only allowed to go and treat themselves and return”.
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can your Newspaper outfit please provide the clear copy of the supreme court judgement on the said land?
In this publication, the accused is the one defending the police, is the accused now the spokesperson for the police?
Also in this publication, you said the DPO threatened, was the DPO suppose tho threaten or do the needful on this case?