AISHA ABUBAKAR
There was tension on Airport Road in Abuja on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, as heavily armed Policemen waylaid detectives from the Homicide Section of the Lagos State Police Command to hijack a murder suspect, who was tracked to the Force Headquarters.
The Policemen, who hijacked the suspect from the homicide detectives claimed to be acting on the instructions of CP Zango from Force CID at the Police Headquarters.
Policemen from the Lagos State Police Vommand had on Tuesday tracked the murder suspect, Jamiu Ayodeji a.k.a Jamani Ketu, to Abuja to arrest him in connection with the killing of 49-year old Alade Bello at Igbolodo village along Ketu Omu Road in the Ikosi Ejinrin Local Council Development Area of Lagos, when the Abuja Policemen blocked them and hijacked the suspect.
This is just as the relatives of the deceased Bello have raised the alarm over threats to their lives by the killers of the deceased 49-year old man.
They called on the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to save them from the killers of their brother and ensure that the deceased did not die in vain.
Mukaila Nofiu, Hassan Kazeem, Wasiu Rasheed and Oluwatobiloba Adesanya had earlier been arrested in connection with the murder and charged to Court while manhunt was launched for Jamani Ketu and others.
One of the relatives of the deceased man, Sikiru Lasisi, told newsmen that “There is an urgent need for the Inspector General of Police to urgently investigate what happened in Abuja on Tuesday”.
Lasisi said, “My brother was killed in April this year and the Police at the Lagos State Cid, Panti, began investigation into the killing and arrested four persons”.
“They first arrested Mukaila Nofiu, Hassan Kazeem, Wasiu Rasheed and charged them to Court before arresting Oluwatobiloba Adesanya, who was subsequently charged to Court” Lasisi said.
He continued that “Jamani Ketu continued to threaten our lives, bragging that nobody would arrest him but when he discovered that Oluwatobiloba had been arrested, he went into hiding”.
“Detectives from the Homicide Section in Panti tracked him to the Force Headquarters in Abuja, where he has been hiding for some weeks.”
Lasisi also stated that, “He was arrested but surprisingly, the Policemen were on their way to the airport to bring him to Lagos, when about twenty heavily armed men waylaid them on the road and hijacked Jamani Ketu from them”.
Another member of the family, Rafiu Adewale, stated that ” The Policemen, who came to hijack the suspect claimed to be acting on the instruction of a Commissioner of Police at the Force Headquarters in Abuja”.
“They told the Policemen to come to Abuja if they have any question to ask the suspect and they drove him away.”
Adewale said, “With what happened on Tuesday in Abuja, our lives have been further threatened as Jamani Ketu and others walk freely in public”.
He also said that “The IGP, Mr. Kayode Egbetokun, should order a thorough investigation into the role of the Police Commissioner in the shameful rescue of a murder suspect from homicide detectives”.