The Royal Family of Onasa of the Odo Onosa and Abatiwa, Ogun State, has sent a save-our-souls to Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Idowu Owohunwa, over the wrongful detention of their sons over allegation of murder of a policeman.
The families want the CP to order thorough investigation into the murder allegation as the suspects were innocent of the allegation. The families said they were having a land dispute with an alleged notorious land grabber, who used the opportunity of the murder of some policemen to rope their children into the murder to distract them from the land case.
In the petition by their solicitor, Barr. Ayodeji Adekunle, stated that those who are wrongfully detained in Lagos State Police Command are: Shakiru Shittu, Taofeek Aluko, Sola Sonaike, Adekunle Onasanya and Muri Aluko. They were alleged to be cultists who killed some policemen and snatched their guns. It is false information to the police to distract us and the police. We live in Ogun State, but the murder of the policemen was done in Lagos. Our children were arrested by a local security outfit under the payroll of a land grabber, who handed them over to Lagos State Police Command. The police did not ask questions as they quickly received our children as suspected cultists and murderers.
“We are appealing to the CP to look into the matter critically, to see that those who arrested our children and handed them over to the police were those who committed the murder and turned it against our children. They have murdered many people before and the Inspector-General of Police is aware of their activities and has ordered an investigation against them. They are using the wrongful information of the arrest of our children to distract the IGP from the land case we have with them. It is a critical case, so we need highly crack detectives to do a painstaking investigation to unravel what is really happening.
“We are solicitors to the Onosa Royal Family of Odo Onosa and Abatiwa. The Abatiwa village is a boundary community between Lagos and Ogun State. The family is a land-owning family and a judgement creditor in suit No HCJ/86/2012 between Otunba David Okelarin & Ors V Morufu Karonwi Saliu & Ors. We, hereinafter, refer to the Onosa Royal Family as our clients.
