The House of Assembly in Ogun Tuesday asked the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to immediately look into alleged illegal arrest and detention of innocent residents of the state.
The Speaker, Olakunle Oluomo, while making the request during plenary in Abeokuta, said the arrests and detention were on trumped-up charges by the police.He alleged that they were also being done in connivance with some suspected land-grabbers.The lawmakers had taken turns to report rampant cases of land-grabbing in their various constituencies.They spoke while contributing to a debate on the second reading of the State Anti Land-Grabbing (Amendment) Bill.Hundreds of innocent residents of the state have continued to languish in the various detention cells of the Police Force both at Alagbon in Lagos and the Force Headquarters in Abuja.“The detentions were due to the connivance of land-grabbers with some security agents against innocent members of the public,” Oluomo said.
