The Inspector General of Police, Mr Mohammed Abubakar, weekend, directed that a discrete investigation be carried out on the alleged rape of a mother of two by a Divisional Police Officer, DPO, in Lagos Island, while she was in detention.
However, the three-man panel comprising senior officers from the Lagos State Police Public Relations Office, Human Rights and X Squad are expected to make their findings in the rape saga known to members of the public this week.
As at yesterday, the DPO and two other policemen mentioned by the victim, Miss Idowu Akinwunmi, were still being detained at the Lagos State Command Headquarters.
The DPO, alongside seven other policemen on duty on the day of the alleged rape incident, were summoned, Friday, for interrogation at the state command. But some of the policemen, according to police sources, claimed they went to eat and denied that they ever saw when the lady was invited to the DPO’s office for the purported debriefing.
The three man investigative panel reportedly visited the police division where the alleged act took place, Saturday, where the location of the room the alleged act took place, including the toilet the mother of two claimed to have later washed herself as instructed by the DPO, fit her description.
Five of the policemen earlier detained alongside the DPO were later released by the panel on ground that they were not directly involved.
When the spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Ngozi Braide, was contacted on the latest development, she said investigation was still on, adding that its findings would be made known to members of the public.
Source: Vanguard
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