…boasts CP can’t touch him
The Assistant Commissioner Police in charge of Area G, Ogba, Lagos, ACP Omole Ola, allegedly threatened to slap and detain New Telegraph newspapers’ Chief Cartoonist, Mr. Aliu Eroje, who was in his office on the instance of the Commissioner of Police over a petition he wrote.
Mr Eroje had written a petition to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, CP Idowu Owohunwa, over an attack by one Ms Ogechi Dike, who is a daughter to his landlady, for allegedly regularly harassing, humiliating and attacking him, and makes life unbearable for him and his family members in their residence.
Eroje said the landlady’s daughter resorted to manipulation and refusing to issue him with receipts of his rent payments for the years 2019/2020, 2020/2022 and 2023/2024.
He said that each time he demanded for the receipts, Ms Dike will use it as an opportunity to insult him and also trying to be exploitative, adding that the landlady and her daughter severally disrupted water and electricity supplies to his apartment.
According to him, on one of such occasions she resorted to attacking him, which he reported at the Ijaiye-Ojokoro Police Station, but because he was not satisfied with the manner the case was being handled at the station, he decided to write a petition to the CP, because his life was being threatened.
Conscious of the complicity and bias of the DPO and an ASP, who were always in support of the landlady and her daughter, on May 2, 2023, Ogechi stood on their apartment balcony and began to throw bottled water and other dangerous objects at him, while he was coming back into the compound.
“She also held me and used her jaw to hit and injured me on my lips and she boasted that she must frustrate me till I move out of their house. I also sustained injuries on my right leg, causing me serious bleeding,” Eroje explained.
Unfortunately, when Eroje got to the office of the Area commander, Area G Ogba, in company of the Area Crime Officer, following the petition he wrote to the CP on the matter, but the Area Commander could not even read the petition, but threatened to slap and detain him.
His words: “From the Commissioner of Police’s office I was directed to the Office of the Area Crime Officer at Area G, one Mr Onajide, who later asked me to come on Tuesday. When I got there he collected the phone number of the lady who assaulted me.
“When he called the woman, she said she would not be chanced on that particular day, and I was told to come the following day which was Wednesday.
“Few minutes later, the Area Commander called Onajide that both of us should come to his office. I was surprised when I saw the woman already in the Area Commander’s office. The Area commander then asked Onajide what the matter was. As Onajide was trying to explain, the Area Commander charged at me, calling me a liar, saying he knows people like me.
“I was shocked. And I told him he was yet to hear from me…, but he started abusing me, saying I should shut my mouth, asking how old I am.
“After I told him my age, he continued with the abuse saying that at my age I don’t have my own house. That I should be ashamed of myself that I still live in a rented house, that people like me are liars. I told him I was disappointed at his behaviour. He said if I should call his name again he would slap and detain me. He even left his chair to come to where I was standing. It was the volume of his voice that attracted the junior officers into his office, but they were helpless.”
He further alleged that the area Commander never bothered to look at the petition before taking side with the lady, adding:
“I was disgraced out of the Area commander’s office, simply because I took a petition from the CP’s office to him to settle a matter amicably. He also boasted that the Commissioner of Police cannot touch him, because he was doing the right thing.”
When contacted, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Benjamin Hundeyin, promised to make contacts and get back to us, but he was yet to revert as at the time of going to press.
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