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THE men of Oyo State of Nigeria Police Force, NPF, attached to Agugu Divisional Police Station, have detained a nursing mother, Mubo A. Sulaiman and her eight months old daughter, Ashabi, for reporting the case of domestic violence attack against them by their co-tenant husband, one Oyewumi Adekola, popularly known as “Sinbomky” in the absence of their husband.
The rights group, the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice, CHRSJ, disclosed that the incident occurred at the Gbelekale area of Ibadan, Oyo State and the matter was earlier reported to the Police Station on Thursday, June 22, 2023, around 8.51pm, where one Inspector Kehinde, who attended to the Victim/Complainant, told her vehemently that the Police could not arrest the suspect, Oyewumi Adekola-Sinbomky, because he was their friend in the Station.
But when the pressure was mounted by the woman Victim/Complainant, the suspect was arrested on Friday, June 23, 2023 around 8 o’clock in the morning after collecting the sum of N3,000 from the innocent Victim/Complainant and the suspect was released few hours later by the Police and turn the woman Victim/Complainant to the suspect and she was detained alongside her eight months old daughter till the time of filling this report on Saturday, June 24, 2023 and not knowing the time she would be released by the Police from their illegal detention.
It added that the Woman Victim/Complainant and eight months daughter need to go under intensive medical treatment after releasing from the illegal police detention because of the trauma they were being made to pass through by the police unjustly.
It was learnt that the Woman Victim/Complainant was detained alongside her eight months old daughter on the instruction of Divisional Crime Officer, DCO, with to the Investigation Police Officer, IPO, Officer Mary.
Speaking on the development, the CHRSJ’s Executive Chairman, Adeniyi Alimi Sulaiman, queried the rationale behind the illegal detention of the woman, while the Police released the suspect unconditionally.
Sulaiman urged the Police authority in the country, particularly, the Commissioner of Police in charge of Oyo State to wade into the sensitive matter, for proper handling of the case to ensure that the woman and her child, who were detained illegally and unjustly get justice and compensation.
The rights activist called for immediate re-arrest of the suspect Oyewumi Adekola-Sinbomky for possible prosecution at the court of competent jurisdiction in reasonable and real time as stipulated by the law of the land.
He called for disciplinary action of outright dismissal against the aforementioned Police Officers, including their Divisional Police Officer, DPO for allowing such illegality and criminality.
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