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Lagos state police reacts to viral posts from a ‘Faceless DSS Officer’ alleging cowl up within the killing of sound engineer David Imoh
The Lagos State Police Command has dismissed the write-up making the rounds on social media by an alleged DSS officer, claiming a cover-up by the Police within the unlucky lynching of David Imoh on Might 12, 2022.
An announcement launched by the spokesperson of the state police command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, says the write-up is nothing however a ”cunningly-crafted work of fiction ill-intended by some unpatriotic individuals and struggle mongers to trigger disaffection, and probably ethnic struggle, amongst Nigerians. ”
”The Lagos State Police Command once more confirms that the Divisional Police Officer, Maroko Division arrived on the energetic crime scene , promptly arrested 4 suspects and rescued the opposite two individuals underneath assault. The quite a few observers of the arrests, a few of whom made movies, can attest to this.
It’s subsequently ridiculous, frivolous and laughable that the suspects have been allegedly paid a miserly One Hundred Thousand Naira every to confess and take the autumn for homicide.” the assertion learn
Hundeyin added that additional investigation by the State Felony Investigation Division led to the arrest of two different suspects. All six suspects have been paraded earlier than the press by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, CP Abiodun Alabi, fdc, mnim, psc on Might 20, 2022. A seventh suspect, Usman Abubakar, aged 22 (not the mastermind), who actually poured petrol on the sufferer, was finally arrested the subsequent day. This brings the overall variety of arrested suspects to seven.
He acknowledged that not solely 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.
