Police have arrested the neighbors of the late Inspector Danjuma Daniel at Ijeh Police Barracks, Obalende, Lagos, for not intervening when he was fighting with his wife.
Daniel reportedly died after his wife pushed him off the balcony of their house in the barracks during a fight last Thursday. The couple was said to have a penchant for fighting.
Angry by the inspector’s death the police authorities reportedly ordered the arrest of all adults in the barracks for failing to stop the fight and make peace between the husband and wife before it degenerated to a fight. “The police authorities also want to use the neighbors to get to the root of the fight which led to the death of the inspector,” a policeman said.
“We don’t know the cause of the fight yet. But the late inspector and his wife used to fight always. It was nothing new anymore,” a resident said. She said that people living in the barracks were being arrested for failing to intervene when the couple was fighting.
The resident alleged that the directive was from the police top hierarchy. Although initial reports said that the inspector fell from the balcony, some of the residents alleged that in the heat of the scuffle, the mother of three pushed her husband off the balcony. “Immediately the man fell, the wife started screaming. As she was rushing down the stairs to go to her husband, she fell down and fractured her leg.
The woman was later rushed to the hospital. Before the residents could bring a vehicle to move the inspector to a hospital, he died,” said one of the residents. Most of the residents were said to have broken down and wept after they observed that the man was dead.
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