The Lagos
State Police Command at the weekend rescued 13 children and 15 adults chained
and locked up by one Emmanuel Adeyemi at the Oke-ira area of Ojodu, Lagos.
The
Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, CP Fatai Owoseni, acting on
a tip-off, had deployed operatives from the Area G Command Headquarters to the
scene.
Although the
initial intelligence report was that a teenager was chained in the house at
Oyinbo Unity Estate, Olamidun Close, Yakoyo, Oke-Ira, Ojodu, subsequent search
of the residence by the police revealed 27 others apart from the 17-year-old
Toba Adedoyin the Police had gone to rescue.
Confirming the
incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmos, a
Superintendent of Police, said, “The command received a report through Area ‘G’
Command Headquarters, Ogba, that a child was chained in a house at Oyinbo Unity
Estate, Olamidun Close, Yakoyo, Oke-Ira, Ojodu.
“Consequently,
a team of policemen was mobilized to the location where a teenager named Toba
Adedoyin ‘m’, aged 17, was found in a room with a chain on his legs.
“The victim
was allegedly chained by one Emmanuel Adeyemi ‘m’ who claimed to be his father,
in order to restrain him from going out.
” Further
search of the premises led to the discovery of other people chained by the
suspect.
“A total
number of 28 persons, comprising six adult males, nine adult females, seven
female children and six male children were rescued and taken to protective custody.
“A suspect has
been arrested and is currently undergoing interrogation as the command is
working assiduously to get to the root of the occurrence.”
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