DPO in bother for allegedly seizing lawyer’s automobile, making try and jail his mechanics

The Divisional Police Officer of Elemoro Division beneath the Lagos State Police Command and a Chief Superintendent of Police, CSP Amubieya John, is in bother for allegedly seizing the automobile of a lawyer, Ajana Olajide, and attempting to jail his mechanic.

The spokesman of the Command, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, made the event identified in an announcement he issued to newsmen on Monday.

In response to Hundeyin, the Command’s Commissioner, CP Olohundare Jimoh, has arrange a five-man committee to probe John.

The CP ordered the probe following a publication within the Vanguard Newspaper of April 24, 2025, with the headline: “Energy in unsuitable arms: How a Lagos DPO tried to jail 2 harmless mechanics.”

Within the publication, Olajide accused the DPO of unlawfully detaining his mechanics and seizing his automobile.

The lawyer mentioned that he gave his automobile to his mechanics and through test-driving, officers from the Elemoro Police Division apprehended them, claiming that the automobile was a suspected stolen car.

The authorized practitioner mentioned that after he had already recognized himself because the automobile proprietor, the DPO nonetheless charged his mechanics to courtroom, accusing them of being in possession of a car “moderately suspected to be stolen”,

The lawyer mentioned that the Justice of the Peace of the courtroom, after reviewing proof, dismissed the fees instantly and freed his mechanics, however the DPO refused to launch his automobile.

He mentioned that it took a proper order from the Justice of the Peace earlier than his automobile was lastly launched, 22 days after it was unlawfully seized.

The lawyer known as on the police authority to probe the motion of the DPO, claiming that many harmless folks had been behind bars for related circumstances.

Responding, CP Jimoh mentioned that the command had arrange a committee headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police, State Felony Investigation Division (SCID), together with the Officer-in Cost of Authorized of the Command to analyze all of the allegations within the report and submit findings inside every week.

In response to him, the DPO and different officers concerned have been transferred out of Elemoro Division to pave the best way for an intensive and unhindered investigation into the allegations within the report.

He mentioned: “The end result of the investigation will definitely be made public.

“We want to lengthen invitation to the lawyer involved for a gathering at his personal comfort with the committee set as much as examine the allegations.”

The Commissioner mentioned that the command doesn’t assist any type of inhuman therapy or miscarriage of justice in any type.

Jimoh mentioned: “If the officers concerned are discovered wanting, in anyway, applicable disciplinary measures will probably be utilized to function efficient deterrent to others.

“We implore members of the general public to have belief within the police and be assured that each wrongdoing confirmed towards any officer would definitely be redressed.”