Osun: Rights Group To Drag Police Officers Before Police Authorities Over Corruption, Bribery, Illegal Roadblocks, Others

As Osun Police Turn Station To IBEDC Office For Pre-paid Meter Users, Payment Of Electricity Bill

A human rights organization, the Centre for Human Rights and Social
Justice (CHRSJ) are set to drag the Police officers attached to State
Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Osun State Police Command,
before the Police authorities in the country over illegal arrest and
unlawful detention of a poor woman Community Health Extension
Workers(CHEW) working with the State Government.

Meanwhile, Dugbe Police Station, Osogbo, under the nose of * State
Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olawale Olokode (+2348033181456)*,, has
turned the Police Station to *Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company
(IBDC)*, where they were *settled and collected the Payment of
electricity bill with involvement in distribution of Prepaid meters*
among the *Caretaker, Lanlord and Tenant* in Osogbo, the State Capital
of the State..

It was reported to the Centre for Human Rights and Social Justice (
CHRSJ) that one *Woman Police officer attached to Dugbe Police
Station*, Osogbo, called *W/Insp. Iyabo (+2349039549099)*, who
lawlessly behaved like the then *woman Police officer
“Joke”(+2348063171561) of the same Dugbe Police Station* and one
*Corporal Ebenezer David(+2348065116723)* of Railway Police Station,
osogbo on *Monday 11th July, 2016* in the case against one Reverend
Oke .O.T, had been calling one *Mr. Lukman(+2348060692681)* that his
former Landlord/ Caretaker, Mr. Akinsanya (+2348033898210)/Mr.
Omotosho(+2348062702766) respectively, reported him(Lukman) to their
Police Station for non settlement of electricity bill before he left
their house in the year 2021 and he(Lukman) should report to *Dugbe
Police Station* for Payment of the electricity bill.

CHRSJ decided to *report their incompetence and illegality to the
Chairman, Police Service Commission (PSC), Inspector General of
Police(IGP), Nigeria Police Affairs Council(NPAC), Minister of Police
Affairs and Executive Secretary, National Human Rights
Commission(NHRC)* and other concern authorities.

It alleged the State *Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olawale
Olokede(+2348033181456), and DCP in charge of SCID of aiding and
abetting illegality* across the length and breadth of the State,which
lead to the geometrical increase of crime rate in the State as
recently experienced in Ile-Ife and Ilesa,where made the Ooni Of Ife,
to declare curfew in the source of Yoruba race before the State
Government reversed the action.

It was learnt that the Policemen from the SCID stormed the residence
of one Mrs.Felicia (+2348112988965/+2347030423186) in the sleepy
community of Egbedi in Egbedore Local Government Area of the State by claiming that one person wrote a petition against the woman that she
was having Government drugs in her custody, which the poor woman
denied vehemently and *those officers started beaten her son called
Olalekan(+2348054448929/+2349042551644)* to a pulp by subjecting him
to illegal tortured.

Although, after the Police checks, they saw only Metician and Testing
Tube which the woman used for testing of the poor people of the
community for any emergency, adding that the woman show receipts of
other drugs which she bought from the Pharmaceutical Stores.

But the woman explained to the Police officers that as Head of
Community Health Centre in the Community, she used to treat the people of the community on emergency and that was why you met Testing Tube with me but all the explanation went on *deaf ears of these Police officer’s, Kolawole Babalawo* with Phone number (+2347062540703)
and his lawless team with *Phone numbers:-(+2348068725450 &
+2348126342026) and later whisked the woman away* to their office in
Osogbo and *kept her incommunicado since morning till the night of
Saturday 29th of January, 2022*.

While the leadership of the CHRSJ intervened in the matter by
contacting the Police authorities in the State, *including;CP
Olokede(+2348033181456), and PPRO, Mrs. Yemisi Opalola.(+234
8067788119)* through their Phone numbers for passionate request to
Know the Petitioner of the alleged petition, the Police were dribbling
leaders of the rights group and also requesting for the unconditional
release of the woman on bail by providing reasonable surety that would stand for her and they would come back on Monday for the matter to be charged to Court for adjudication.

But to compound the matter, *the Police went ahead to write the
statement for the woman so as to indict her and absolutely denied her
to have an access to her legal Practitioner, not to talk of person of
her own choice, which is contrary to section(35)* of the 1999
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, as amended.

The Police officers were claiming that the matter would have been
settled before they reached their Station in Osogbo, had they been the woman cooperate with them by accepting their request of bringing sum of #250,000 for bail and settlement of the matter once and for all”*.

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Speaking on the issue on Thursday, the CHRSJ’s Director of Planning
and Mobilization, Comrade Atanda Olaniyan , strongly condemned the
illegal arrest and unlawful detention of the woman by the Police as
they(Police) *collected the sum of N50,000:00k bribe* on Saturday
night of 29th day of January 2022 for bail fee from the family of the
innocent woman and another *Fifteen Thousand Naira (N15,000:00k) on
Monday Morning of 31st day of January, 2022*.

We had earlier demanded from the Police of the State State Command to
charge the matter to Court on Monday or the woman be released
unconditionally, the *Officer-in-Charge of this matter, Kolawole
Babalawo(+2347062540703)* started to performed the series of
*constabulary mentality* of pushing them here and there like a
redundant coins in the morning, evening and night to come to the State
(SCID), Osogbo since Monday till the time of filling this report by
also refused to unveil the alleged fugitive Petitioner and also
refused to take matter to Court but turn them to ATM machine where
they were collecting between Five Thousand to Ten Thousand
Naira(N5,000 to N10,000) from Monday till now after they had earlier
collected sum of Sixty Five Thousand Naira (N65,000) at the weekend.

Babalawo emphatically hanged on the fact that the State Commissioner
of Police, Olawale Olokede and Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge
of State Criminal Investigation Department(SCID) aware of all the
money being collected from the victim and her family.

Comrade Olaniyan maintained that *dragging the matter to Magistrate
Court, would expose the fugitive Petitioner of the Police on the
subject matter and exposed when the Police turned to NAFDAC, NDLEA
and Ministry of Health*, adding that the Centre had provided the team
of Lawyers to defend the woman in Court since Monday till this moment,
but the so Called Police Officers from Osogbo State (SCID), under the
control of the ” Mr. CP” Olawale Olokede and his (DCP) refused to
charge the matter to Court, and their agents continue to give one
excuse and the other with continuation of extorting the innocent woman
and her family members.

Instead of Police to arrange the victim/ innocent woman in Court to
allow the court of the competent jurisdiction to pronounce otherwise
in accordance with the constitutional provisions, Police still wanted
to make an unlawful, purported/kangaroo arrangement of Press briefing
to snap the picture of the innocent Community workers with another
drugs
and other hospital materials to blackmail the woman before the public
with frivolous allegation of committing the offence, alleging of
threatening of the innocent woman if she refused to give them money as
the police officers requested from her.

According to *CHRSJ*, “It promised to establish *section(35)
sub-section(6)* against the lawless/professional emeritus of bribe
collector Police Officers attached to Osun State Criminal
Investigation Department(SCID) and their boss in all ramifications, no
matter the level of their rookie counterfeiter of lies and blabber
mouths of pathological and blatant lies of these corrupt police
officers and their departments, who are planing their fake press
briefing to destroy the image and blackmailing the innocent woman(Mrs.
Felicia) or any other victims in the State, the Centre will Continue
to expose and counterpoise their offices nonsensical constabulary
mentality with all legal means available to us, as they (Police)
always going beyond their mecuantancy,

It described the action of the said Police officers as *horrific,
barbaric, illegal, unlawful, unconstitutional,unwarranted,
lawlessness, anathema, undemocratic, satanic, abomination, nonchalant,
aberration, undemocratic and crime against God and humanity*.

CHRSJ further alleged that this has been the habitual characters of
the Police officers in Osun State Command since assumption of office
of current Police Commissioner in the State, *Mr. Olawalee
Olokede(+2348033181456)* by always claiming that Mr. Olokede were in
the known of all their actions, either legal or illegal, as their
always pay the return every week to the CP’s Office like formal Oyo,
Ogun and River States Commissioners of Police(CPs)respectively; *Baba
Adisa Bolanta(Rtd), Hammed illiaz(Rtd)* and *Ibu John Ibu(Rtd)*.

This was unconnected with the allegations against the *CP Olokede of
aiding and abetting the internet fraudsters*, popularly known as
*Yahoo boys*, which the *law of karma and natural justice visited him*
recently that lead to the sudden burnt of his private residence in
Ogun State.

As the cat is now out of the basket on their(Police) discrepancies
with poncaturious competitious nacornic nacunal, the group is now set
all locomotive legal machinery on motion to request for the *”outright
dismissal”* of these aforementioned lawless Police officers without
any further delay, in order to serve as a deterrent to any corrupt
officers in the Nigeria Police Force(NPF) and other law enforcement
agencies, who have the same idiosyncratic tendency of sarcasm implied
rebuking in their hearts and olfactory lobe with nerve, even if *”Fiat
Justitiae Ruat Caelum”*.

Olaniyan declared that the *current Osun CP Olokede*, was too
downgraded to be putting in charge of the State like Osun to be man,
instead of the States like *Borno, Yobe, Zamfara, Adamawa, Benue* and
others, where he would be able to praticalize his knowledge of
policing the country and bring positive results of relegating the
*Boko-Haram, Herdsmen, Bandits* and other groups that put security
challenges to those areas, to background within the shortest periods
of time of assuming officein Osun State.

It further alleged that the rate of crimes have been on the rise since
*former Commissioner of Police, Adeoye Olafimihan (+2348033415589)*
left office in the State, if not for the intervention and emergency of
*Amotekun Corps*, led by its Pioneer Director General(DG) and now
Field Commander *(Comrade Combatant (Chief )Amitolu Shittu)*, the
security situation of Osun State would have been damaged beyond the
repair, due to the incompetency, lackadaisical attitude and corrupt
practices level of the Police Officers in the State.

He then prayed to God Almighty to give *former CP Olafimihan Adeoye
long life in sound health to enjoy the fruits of his labour on earth*
and the then State former *PPRO*;Mrs. *Folashade
Odoro(+2348035384448)*, who still in active service into her
fathersland by saying *”Namaste, Namascara and Namascram”*.

*Signed*:

COMRADE *ATANDA OLANIYAN* .
Director, Mobilization and Planning,
Centre For Human Rights and Social Justice(CHRSJ)
+2347025191448 /+2348025000651*