Edgal Imohimi rescues 11-year-old girl locked up without food
- The Lagos state commissioner of police, Edgal Imohimi, urges people to be their brother's keeper and to report any wrong observed in their vicinity to the police
- The police boss directs the divisional police officer of Makinde to arrest the guardian of a child who was locked without food
The Lagos state commissioner of police, Edgal Imohimi has warned that jail awaits anyone who abuses the rights of a child, women and the vulnerable in Lagos.
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The commissioner gave the warning on Thursday, January 4, at No 12 Baderin street in Mafoluku, Oshodi, Lagos, where he had gone to rescue an 11-year-old child locked up in a poorly ventilated apartment without food.
Legit.ng learnt that his attention was drawn to the poor girl's plight by neighbours.
On getting to the scene, Imohimi, ordered that the iron burglary proof barricading the entrance to the living room be cut open by a welder.
He urged the crowd that gathered to be their brother's keeper and to report any wrong observed in their vicinity to the police.
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The little girl by name Precious Nwafor, who was brought all the way from Umunze in Orumba LGA of Anambra state with a promise of better life in Lagos was handed over to the Social welfare department of the Lagos state government.
The commissioner directed the divisional police officer of Makinde to arrest the guardian of the child for prosecution.
Meanwhile, the commissioner of police in Lagos state, Edgal Imohimi, on Thursday, December 4, disclosed how three arrested Badoo suspects hypnotised and smashed their victims’ head while asleep. Imohimi said this while presenting the suspects to newsmen in Lagos, The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
He gave their names as Chibuzo Igwe; Samuel Akaeze a.k.a Samito Gift Akaeze; Omotayo Abamoyegun and Fatai Adebayo, a herbalist who fortified the cultists before going on operations.
According to him, on December 30, 2017 at about 2:30am the peace of Lagos was disturbed at Alajo Close, Ibeshe, a suburb of Ikorodu, when three suspects invaded one late Shakiru Yekini’s compound where he was killed alongside his wife and his six-month-old baby injured.
Police parade gang leader of Badoo Cult group in Lagos on Legit.ng TV
Source: Legit.ng
