Lagos CP redeploys DPO, others over unprofessional conduct

Etim Ekpimah

The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Hakeem Odumosu has ordered for immediate redeployment of CSP Francis Ani, the Divisional Police Officer, Onipanu Division of the Lagos State Police Command, and some of his boys for the harassment and illegal detention of Mr Tunde Abass and one Kabir Mohammed at Onipanu on Friday, March 19, 2021.

Abass was alleged by the police at the division to be recording the harassment and forceful arrest of Mr Kabir Mohammed at Onipanu area of Lagos State on Friday March 19, 2021 around 5pm after Tunde’s intervention in the case.

The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Thursday, said Odumosu reached the decision on Wednesday after going through the report of the investigation into the incident that had gone viral on the gross violation of Tunde’s human rights by the DPO and his boys.

He said: “The Commissioner of Police has, therefore, condemned such act of unprofessionalism and excessive use of power to send a signal to the whole world that the command will not, for whatever reason, condone such act; and to serve as deterrent to other policemen who are fond of harassing, extorting, and engaging in acts of lawlessness, unprofessionalism, and gross violation of people’s human rights in the state.

“Odumosu has also ordered that the concerned policemen in the unprofessional act be tried orderly room to award punishments accordingly, while the DPO be redeployed to the State Command Headquarters, Ikeja.”