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Lagos community petitions police commissioner over arrest of cultists, says they are threat to public peace [Photos]

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The residents of Fadeyi in Somolu local government area of Lagos State, have urged the State Police Commissioner to ensure that justice is served in the case of four suspected cultists and armed robbers recently arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).

The four suspect Waziri Yusufu; Tega Michael; Afolabi Alabi and Murphy Etu were said to have been terrorising the area and their arrest has brought some relief on residents and the community.

They were reportedly arrested by the police last Wednesday, with high calibre rifles and other ammunition.

The community, in a petition by their lawyer, Greg I. Aghedo, to the State’s Commissioner of Police, is asking for a thorough investigation by the police to ensure that the truth is revealed and justice is not only done but seen to have been done in the case.

The resident alleged that the suspects have killed many innocent citizens in the area without any justifiable reason.

They also called on the Police Commissioner to ensure that his men do not cover up anything in their investigation as several of their complaints about the activities of the arrested cultists and other criminals in the area to the police in the past have either been ignored or swept under the carpet.

The community’s petition dated May 16, 2019 and captioned “serial murder, cultism, banditry and other grave acts of criminality by Waziri Yusuf, Tega Michael, Afolabi Alabi, Murphy Etu and several others,” was written on behalf of  a woman whose husband was allegedly killed by the suspects, residents of Ayodele street and other adjoining areas of Fadeyi, in Somolu.

The petition reads,

“Our clients are complainants against the above mentioned persons who were arrested by your men of the Federal Special Anti Robbery Squad (FSARS) and currently in your custody on charges of Armed Robbery, illegal possession of fire arms e.t.c. Before the arrest of these suspects, they had committed several murders which includes the murder of the husband of the above mentioned Mrs. Suliyat Asekun. The case is before the Anti Homicide department of the State Department of Criminal Investigations, Yaba.

“Sir, the above mentioned persons have always managed to escaped from justice. It was with great joy and relief when information got to our clients that they had been arrested by the Isheri Division of the Lagos Command and had been transferred to FSARS Office lkeja”.

The residents while appealing to the State’s Commissioner of Police to urgently attend to their petition, also promised to assist the police with useful information in its investigation on the arrested suspected.

 

See copy of the petition:

Fadeyi petition Fadeyi Petition

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