How Police Made Me Write Statement At Gunpoint – Graduate [ Pictured ]

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A 30-year-old graduate, Daniel Yosua, who was
paraded by the Lagos State Police Command, along
with some hoodlums said he was made to give his
statement at gunpoint at a police station when he went
to report a street fight.

Yosua, a native of Okpara, Delta State, stated that he
was arrested and detained at the Mile 12 Police station
after he had gone to report the fight on Sadiku Street
in the Mile 12 area where he resides.

It was learnt that Yosua and two others were arrested
by the police on Friday before they were moved to the
Ketu division for onward transfer to the State
Department of Criminal Investigation, Yaba, for
further investigation.

Yosua who spoke with newsmen while being paraded
for robbery, said police officers held gun to his head
while forcing him to write the statement at the station,
shortly after he went to report a fight.

He said, “It was on Friday, October 9, on my street
in the Mile 12 area. The street fight started at about
8pm. My friends and I were in a shop discussing when
we heard bottles breaking a few metres away. We
quickly ran inside the compound of one of my friends.

“That was where I hid while the thugs fought on my
street. After about 10 minutes, I came out, and found
out that one of my friends, Bisi Olateju, was injured.
I then told others that I was going to the police station
to report the fight. I went to the Mile 12 Police Post
to make the report.

“When I was going back home, one of the police
officers, a woman, said I should be on the lookout, and
bring anyone who was among those fighting.

“I then rushed my friend, Olateju, to the hospital. As
I stepped out of the hospital premises, one of the
hoodlums, who learnt I went to the station to report,
came around to make trouble.

“After much noise, he was beaten by some other
persons, and we all went to the police station. The
hoodlum was slightly injured in the mouth. When we
got to the station, to my surprise, I was arrested and
detained.

“I told the policemen that I was the one who came
earlier to report the street fight. One of them just
pointed a rifle at me, and said I should begin to write
a statement. That was how I was detained.

“Later on, I was transferred with the hoodlum to
Ketu division and then to SDCI, Panti. I had never
been involved in violence. I made a mistake of going to
the police to report the incident.

“A policeman, Adeyemi, who is attached to Ketu
division, is the mastermind of my ordeals. My family
members had gone to explain to him on several
occasions, but he would not listen.”

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