The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar has ordered investigation into the alleged rape of a female detainee by a Divisional Police Officer in Lagos.
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| Nigerian IGP, M Abubakar |
A non-governmental organization, Network on Police Reform in Nigeria (NOPRI), had early sent a petition to the IGP over alleged rape of one Miss Idowu Akinwunmi by the DPO of Onikan Police Station, Adekunle Awe, a Superintendent of Police n his office on April 15. The victim who informed NOPRIN that she works at ‘Abua Mamaput & Bar’ (makeshift restaurant) at 11, Keffi Road, Ikoyi, said she was arrested by police operatives attached to the division on April 15 at about 1am from her work place over a complaint lodged at the police station by her employer, one Mrs. Pelumi Idowu. She was allegedly detained in the cell and at about 10pm, one Inspector Ajiduwe brought her to the DPO office where she was raped.
The victim alleged that the DPO forcefully had canal knowledge of her without protection in his office and later threatened to send her to prison if she mentioned the rape to anyone. Akinwunmi alleged that she was released the next day after the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) one Inspector Taiwo extorted N10,000 from her, adding that she now has severe stomach pains following the said sexual abuse by the DPO.
The National Coordinator of NOPRIN, Okechukwu Nwanguma, noted that if not for the early intervention of the IGP, the matter would have been swept under the carpet. A panel of three senior police officers drawn from the Lagos State Command’s X- Squad, Human rights Section and office of the Public Relations Office had been set up to investigate the matter. A thenationonlineng.net report
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