The Lagos State Police Command has been alerted about a social media post by a nameless DSS officer alleging a cover-up by the police in the terrible lynching of David Imoh on May 12, 2022.
The Command desires to disprove this report as nothing more than a deviously designed piece of fiction meant by some unpatriotic individuals and warmongers to sow discontent, and potentially ethnic strife, among Nigerians.
The Lagos State Police Command reveals that the Divisional Police Officer, Maroko Division, came to the active crime scene, swiftly detained four criminals, and rescued the other two victims. Numerous witnesses to the arrests, some of whom recorded films, can confirm this.
As a result, it is ludicrous, frivolous, and laughable that the suspects were allegedly paid a pittance of one hundred thousand Naira apiece to admit and accept responsibility for the murder.
Further investigation by the State Criminal Investigation Department led to the arrest of two other suspects. All six suspects were paraded before the press by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Abiodun Alabi on May 20, 2022. A seventh suspect, Usman Abubakar, aged 22 (not the mastermind), who literally poured petrol on the victim, was eventually arrested the next day. This brings the total number of arrested suspects to seven.
Furthermore, not only has the State Director of DSS in Lagos State confirmed to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police that the alleged officer was unknown to them, he equally confirmed that the DSS neither arrested nor handed over any suspect to the police.
CP Alabi, therefore, urges Nigerians to disregard the write-up as a mischievous attempt by fifth columnists to cause trouble within the country.
