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Police deny ‘Area Commander locked up Lagos Magistrate’
The Lagos state police command denied a report that an Area Commander Locked Up Lagos Magistrate at Area D Command.
In the report by an online medium, not NewsWireNGR, a power-drunk senior police officer in charge of Area D Command headquarters in Mushin, Lagos State, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Aliko Dankoli, allegedly ordered the locking up of a Lagos Magistrate.
Dankoli had on Monday, May 30 allegedly ordered that a female Magistrate, name withheld, who reportedly visited the Command on a routine check of suspects in the cell-based on the Police Duty Solicitor Scheme to decongest the police cell, be detained. The Magistrate is in Ikeja Division.
Reacting, the Police Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said; ‘The Command wishes to state clearly that the story is nothing but fiction. At no time did the Area Commander detain or attempt to detain the magistrate, who was at the Area Command for Cell Inspection exercise. The Police will never engage in such disrespect to the Judiciary.
“The Lagos State Police Command did the needful and contacted the judiciary. The Lagos State Judiciary confirmed that there was no such thing and neither was the magistrate prevented from carrying out her Cell Inspection exercise.
“We hereby state it unequivocally that any attempt to cause disaffection between the Police and the Judiciary will be fiercely resisted. We remain worthy partners in the justice sector.”
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