Police detain complainants, free suspected thief

• Police detain complainants, free suspected thief

Residents of No. 79 Bajulaye Street, Somolu, Lagos State, have recounted with shock and disgust, how the former Divisional Police Officer (DPO), in charge of Alade Police Station, bullied them into paying for the medical bill of a suspected thief, who was attempting to steal from them.

The young thief, Ismahim Timiriyu 23, was said to have sustained injury on May 7, 2016, while attempting to scale the fence of a building to steal. Timiriyu was caught by residents and handed over to Alade Police Station.
The DPO, identified as Ajimuda, however, detained some of the residents, insisting that others should go and take care of the injury Timiriyu sustained while attempting to scale the walls of the building to steal. One of the residents, Mariam Shittu, said: “I was forced to stay with the suspect in hospital all through the night at the National Orthopedic Hospital, Igbobi, Lagos.”
Shittu, daughter of the owner of the house the suspect targeted, said Timiriyu, on that fateful day, around 1: am, scaled the fence of their building and got injured by broken bottles placed as security measure on the fence.https://newtelegraphonline.com/police-detain-complainants-free-suspected-thief/