Lagos police chief Imohimi Edgal (picture credit score:Lagos State Police)
Three suspected members of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) have been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Police in Lagos.
They had been nabbed after the police raided a shrine allegedly utilized by them to extort members of the general public.
Commissioner of Police in Lagos State, CP Imohimi Edgal, led detectives on Tuesday to the shrine.
He advised journalists that the operators of the shrine had been finishing up trial by ordeal on these arrested for offences not identified to the police on the Opebi hyperlink bridge within the Ikeja space of Lagos.
As said by him, among the victims had been tortured to power them to come clean with the actual crimes they had been being tried for.
“Based on the directive, a team of undercover policemen led by the DPO mounted surveillance around the area. On Monday, June 25, officials of the Neighbourhood Security Safely Corps witnessed a man being dragged into the shrine,” the police chief mentioned.
“They had been drawn to the scene by the person’s screaming. They shortly knowledgeable the DPO who moved his males to the scene, the place three individuals had been arrested and the victim rescued.
“In as a lot as we imagine in group policing and group partnership, let me sound a observe of warning to any group of individuals who might need to take legal guidelines into their palms that the command will deal decisively with members of such teams.
“Members of the OPC have been useful to the command previously. We see them as companions. But as you may see, some group of individuals beneath the guise of the OPC have erected an workplace beneath the Opebi hyperlink bridge the place they take folks to strive them by ordeal.
“They even have a shrine there that they carry their victims to. I imagine that they compelled victims to take an oath. We won't tolerate this in any a part of the state. Those arrested are present process interrogation.
“One of the victims was freed. We are investigating and all those behind these barbaric acts will soon be rounded up. When they are arrested, they will be made to face the wrath of the law.”