The employer, Engineer Wole Odunuga, was arrested after
officers of Metro Police chased his vehicle, a white Toyota Hilux Van
with the registration number SMK 707 CA, from Ketu/Ojota Flyover to 7 –
Up before Toll gate.
The officer had on Wednesday night at around 7:20 p.m. stopped the vehicle but the lone occupant defied the police order and sped off.
After
forcing the vehicle to a stop around 7 – Up, the officer were shocked
to see a man, later identified as Daniel Dabis, with his legs and hands
tied to his back and put at the back of the Hilux.
During
preliminary investigation, the driver of the vehicle claimed the victim
stole his money from his Abuja home before he absconded to Lagos, so he
was transporting him back to Abuja before he was stopped.
He
stated “I've been searching for him all over places, which took me to his
village in Plateau state. It was one of his friends that told me he was
in Lagos where he was hiding. Precisely, I was hinted he was staying at
Mile 12 Market, Ketu.
I drove down from Abuja and I met him at Mile 12 Market, Ketu, where I picked him up”.
He
continued; “initially, I had taken him down to Ketu Divisional Police
Station, Lagos, to incident the matter, but the officers at the station
declined to detain him there. So, I had no option than to take him back
to Abuja”.
Odunuga, a
resident of Pent City Estate, Abuja, added: “that was what I was trying
to do before I was accosted by the police team on routine Patrol under
the Ketu/Ojota flyover",
But
according to Daniel Dabis, “what I took from him were a ladder and a
wheel barrow. He is estimating the cost of the wheel barrow at N110,000
and the ladder, N90,000, that is all I took from him”.
He
has because of that tied my legs and hands to my back. His plans was
to drive me to Abuja, if not for the officers, he would have killed me and dumped
my body at the road side”
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