Okewunmi Omotoyosi Daniel, who was, weekend, arrested alongside suspected members of the notorious Badoo boys during a joint raid by the Police, O’odua Peoples Congress, OPC, and members of a vigilante group in Ikorodu area of Lagos, has said that he is not a member of the dreaded cult.
Daniel’s face appeared in a photograph taken by the Police during the weekend raid.
However, Daniel, who said he is a teacher, visited Vanguard’s corporate headquarters yesterday, noting that he was later released after he convinced the Police of his innocence.
Narrating his ordeal, Daniel said:
“At about 2p.m. on Saturday,
I went in the company of my wife and our nine-month-old baby to a salon
close to my house at Abuja Bus Stop, Ikorodu, to have a hair cut.
While waiting for my turn, our baby started crying and I took him to the section where my wife was also having her hair done.
Later, we heard a word of command from the community
vigilante known as Onyabo, ordering everyone to stand up. Members of the
Onyabo said that our attention was needed by the Commissioner of Police
outside. “We were the first set of people arrested. Miscreants led the
Police to where the raids were carried out.
After the arrest, we were taken into the Black Maria
without an opportunity to explain ourselves. The Onyabo members
(community guards) even collected telephones of those arrested.
They even chased people standing on their own at Owode
Roundabout, Imota and Ita-Maga, and apprehended a man who was about
entering a Mosque to pray.
We were taken in a parked Black Maria to the Task Force
office at Oshodi, where we were detained. That was where they started
taking shots of us, as if we were Badoo members.
Among those arrested were eight civil servants. The cell
did not even contain us. I had to stand all through. “Had my wife and
dad not brought the documents, I am sure that I would have still been
detained.
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