Committee for Defense
of Human Right
Egbe Lagos.
Dear Sir,
LETTER OF ASSISTANCE
On the 3rd
day of April 2015 at about 9:00am, a man came to our Taxi Park at Ikotun to
hire my motor for a service.
The
man said he is going to Shagamu to pick-up two man from shagamu Area Command of
Nigerian Police, we agreed taking him, after agreement on the sum of Twenty-one
Thousand Naira (N21000), to and fro
Shagamu back Lagos, then I took the man with my Toyota Camry Car black in
colour with registration number APP 866
QC ( Engine and Chassis number ATIBG22KZVU761373).
He gave me Five Thousand Naira (N5000)
out of the Twenty-one Thousand Naira agreed on. The we set for the journey,
about 50 meters to the police station, the man received a call from his hand
set, he asked me to park by the road side which I did. After the call, he told
me that the people he wanted to pick in shagamu police station has been
transferred to Okada Division Police H.Q in Edo State, that we are now going to
Okada Police Station, then we both agreed on fresh negotiation of Sixty
Thousand Naira (N60000) for the new
journey and he said that he will pay me additional Ten Thousand Naira to make
the total amount Seventy Thousand Naira (N70000)
because he did not think we can come back to Lagos that same day.
Then
we drove off to Okada in Edo State. Getting to Okada Police Divisional Headquarter
at about 4:20pm, as I parked beside the Police Station, one man asked me to
drive my car away from where I parked and drive it to the other side of the
Police Compound which I obeyed the man. I went inside the police station to
meet the man I brought to the police station. on getting inside the police
station, I had a woman police Corporal asking the man I brought that the last
time he came to the police state that he did not settle them for the job they
did for him and the man said that he gave the police men that went out with him
to give them some amount of money to give to them. With the statement I had
from both of them that gave me confident that the man has been in the police
station before.
Later,
the man that I came with called one of the policeman out of the station for
discussion, then after the man I came with called me out of the station to meet
them. Getting to where they both stand, the man I brought asked me if I have
any money with me, I said I have Four Thousand Naira with me wish I gave to
him. Then he added One Thousand Naira to it to make up Five Thousand Naira and
then gave it to the policeman which I later know his name to be Sergeant Orji.
The Sergeant Orji told the man I brought to Okada that the Five Thousand Naira
will not be enough for him to mobilize his men for the arrest of the man he
came for. Then the man I came with to Okada Police Station asked the Sergeant
Orji is the bank beside the police station is working and the Sergeant said
yes, and the man said when we come back for the arrest that he will use his
A.T.M card to withdraw money and he will balance Sergeant Orji up.
As
I and the man I brought to Okada and Sergeant Orji are walking to where I
parked my car, the Sergeant said he cannot go with only one policeman for the
arrest because he has a bad leg that he need to go with two other policemen
making three of them including himself. It was then he called one of the
policeman my guy, the name of the other policeman I don’t know. Then Sergeant
Orji asked me to allow one of the police man to drive. Because if I drive my
car when coming back to the station with the men they are going to arrest the
car will not contain all of us which I agreed with Sergeant Orji and I handed
over my car key to him which he gave it to one of his policemen to drive my
car. Sergeant Orji, with two other policemen and the man I brought from Lagos making
four of them in my car
About
40 to 45 minute later, Sergeant Orji and the two other policemen came back to
the police station where they asked me to wait for them and the Sergeant ask me
if I have the man’s phone number with me that they cannot find the man again it
was then I shouted aloud which attracted other policemen around the police
station and came near to know what was happening. Then I told Sergeant Orji
that as a police Sergeant and because we are in the police station and with the
discussion you have made with the man so far made me to have the confident to
give out my car key to you. I told that his going to buy me another car, then
other police man at the road block where saying some words to Sergeant Orji but
I did not hear them well but what I has from Sergeant Orji was that he cannot
die because of Toyota Camry that the said car was not more than N1.2 million if
at all is One million Five Hundred Thousand Naira that he cannot die. On my
hearing this from Sergeant Orji I wanted to hold him by his cloth but I was
afraid they could shoot and kill me there because nobody knows me there. Then I
calm myself down.
Later
we were invited by the Divisional Crime Officer (D.C.O) at about 7:15pm to his
house then later to his office, he asked what was the matter, we both narrated
our story. The he said we should wait for Divisional Police Officer (D.P.O) who
later came from patrol at about 9:05pm.
Before
the arriver of the D.P.O the policeman that drove my car from the police
station came to me to ask of my car registration number. I asked why, he said
that the D.P.O called him to send the number to him at the express road from
Benin to Lagos. Then I told him my car number is APP866QC.
When
the D.P.O came back, he called all of us, myself and the three policemen that
went out with my car and the man I brought from Lagos. Every one of us narrated
our own part of the story. It was then I knew the man that asked me to re-park
my was a police officer and the police officer confirmed that he was the man
that asked me to re-part my car and that he saw the man simply named guy when
he drove the car away with Sergeant Orji, the man I brought from Lagos and the
other policemen. He said this in the presence of the D.P.O, D.C.O and the D.T.O
and other policemen. When the D.P.O had all this, he ask the police officer
that said all he saw that evening to be my I.P.O and he should obtain statement from all the
policemen that are involve in the matter including the woman police corporal
that the man was talking to when we first came in to the police station. then
the D.P.O asked me where will I sleep, I told him in the police station. he ask
me to go and sleep that the next day I should make my statement to my I.P.O.
then I left and slept at the police station.
I called my people
in Lagos that night. My wife and my children and my chairman in Lagos to know
that I am in Okaka Police Station in Okada near Igbinedion University because
they can kill me in the midnight so that my people will know I called them
last.
At
about 12:10am on the 4/4/2015 Sergeant Orji came to the police station where I
sat down, he said that he want to talk to me outside the police station I went
with him outside the station. he asked me what shall I tell the D.P.O if he ask
me on what to say about my lost car. Then I asked him if that was why he woke
me up at this time of the night. I told him that the D.P.O has asked the I.P.O
to write down our statement so he should wait till morning for the statement.
Then he brought out Three Thousand Five Hundred Naira that it was part of the
money he collected from the man I brought from Lagos that he has used some of
the money to buy petrol to their patrol van that they used to trace the man
that at least this balance (N3500) will
take me to Lagos the next day. I collected the (N3500) from Sergeant Orji, but I told my I.P.O when I was writing
down my statement. So the next day being Saturday 4/4/2015 a woman police
called me that I should not eat any food from anybody and I should not let
anybody know when I will be going back to Lagos. At about 12noon, I left the station for
Lagos.
On
9th of April 2015 I went to FALANA AND FALANA’S Chambers at 25,
Adekunle Fajuyi way G.R.A Ikeja Lagos for assistance.
Thank you
Yours sincerely
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