A student at Lagos State Polytechnic, Shakirat Dupe Olanrewaju has collapsed inside a police cell at Pako Station, Safejo area of Amukoko, a suburb of Lagos State Southwest Nigeria, after she was tortured and violated by the police.
Sources told P.M.NEWS that Dupe was tortured weekend by the police for protesting against the release of a suspect she had lodged a complaint against. Her hands were tied to her back. She claimed she was violated and tortured inside the cell until she collapsed. Five cops, she said, violated her in turn overnight, in a single cell at the station.
The police rushed her to a hospital to revive her but concerned residents who were angry about what happened have moved her to another hospital, where she is now receiving treatment.
The 25-year old student said that she had reported a case of burglary and threat to life against her former boyfriend, and the matter was assigned to a policeman, identified asYusuf, to investigate. Later, another cop was asked to investigate the case. The probe led to the arrest of the boyfriend, who was later released.
She said not quite long after the investigation commenced, the policemen started demanding sex from her. They threatened that if she did not allow them to have sex with her, they will not continue with the investigation. She said that she reported the matter to the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, who scolded his men and assigned the matter to another policeman, a sergeant who re-arrested the boyfriend.
She said not quite long after the boyfriend was re-arrested, he was released. Later, according to her, the boyfriend came to her house to mock her, telling her that he had the police in his pocket.
Angered by the action of the police, she went back to the station to complain again. But she claimed that the police insulted her and in the process of exchanging words they beat her and detained her in the cell, where they violated and tortured her until she collapsed and was taken to a hospital.
There are wounds and scars all over her body as a result of the torture.
When P.M.NEWS visited the station, police sources confirmed that Dupe was the complainant in the matter and that she was not satisfied with the way her case was handled.
The sources said the matter resulted in a quarrel and Dupe was beaten, detained, violated and tortured.
Now the police are turning the case on its head. Not knowing where Dupe is receiving treatment, the police claimed they are looking for her and that they want to charge her to court. The nature of her offence was not disclosed.
When P.M.NEWS contacted the State Police Command PRO, Samuel Jinadu, he said he was not aware of the matter. He immediately switched off his phone.

omoabike:

I understand the stress the OP must have gone through as I had been unfortunate to have been stopped sometimes ago in front of the Officer's Mess in Marina. The guys who were in plain clothes claimed to be policemen from Adeniji-Adele. I showed them  my company's ID card and the company Asset tag on the laptop. This guys still insisted to take me to their station. I decided to call my company's security control room from where they decided to send some Mobile Police to the point. It was then that the guys started arguing on whether I should be left to go. I was afraid because i had gone against the company policy of never moving around with the company assigned laptop without being in a company's car.
I had thought I could quickly dash to the bank from the hotel i was staying in Victoria Island (I had came in from Port Harcourt for a few days work on a project) by riding an "okada". I was on the "okada" when I was stopped. This was on a monday morning.
I have had colleagues who had been stopped while on "okada" and searched by these unscrupulous policemen and I have had several run-ins with the Police that should make anyone bitter.
However, I think we Nigerians should do away with this our attitude of always blaming the country for the acts of a few bad people.
The difference between us and other countries' citizens is that they do not blame their countries for the problems caused by their fellow countrymen and women.
While I believe the OP has the right to be bitter against any country he so wishes, he should rather channel his bitterness to the perpetrators of this atrocity on his person and not Nigeria the country.

LoveKing:

if i had a gun ill shoot bluetooth and newseditor before i reply them. Thats my mo. When this happened today i thought about the jos killings and so many other things. I was like wtf! What will make me love this country. Not becos of dbanj or nairaland or money?

Newscaster:

who cares if u hate her or not? Why didnt they let you rot in the prison.

Maybe for you to show receipt of laptop you start speaking english like you do here on Nairaland.

A boy walked into my office and while people werent looking, he stole a laptop and for two weeks noone could find him. Maybe you should understand why police ask for peoples receipt when they see anyone with one - [b]because there are so many thieves all over the place. [/b]Is that why you are crying? did you show them the receipt and they still slam u in jail?

Go away jare. you this Loveking.

ode remo:

the stupidity of Nigerian police knows no bound.
cut a long story short, brought a t.v frm u.k ,gave to my driver as a gift,t.v need tuning, driver took it for repair in a carrier bag. stopped by an officer having his lunch in a bukka, frog marshed driver and t.v to gwrarinpa police station in abj,  phone call for my presence at the station. got there and was asked to produce evidence.
i told the boss that the t.v is actually the evidence cos its frm u.k and will need tuning to work in Nigeria.
the boss @ station now turn the case round by asking me for kola to release a t.v that is of no use to me. i gently said to him he can have the telly cos am not parting with one kobo. seeing his foolishness he let go of driver and t.v.

charlie193:


Alas, that was not my offence. I was told to show my ID, which I did   showing my National ID. Then they collected my wallet, searching for only God knows what! I have alot of Busiiness contact  card inside my wallet. I have only the money I wanted to use to get the glasses fix. The Bus was still moving all this time,  I guess the Driver is not a police officer.

In the Bus I meet some other guys. We were all taken to the  Police barrack at somewhere in surulere. At the station,  the police officers are giving all of us our offences.  Guys please my u na follow me hear offences

One guy was told that because his laptop has no receipt, means that he is a Yahoo Boy, another guy among us was told that since he is a student of Unilag, that he should be in school at that time why was he in Yaba, that it either he is a pick pocket or fake money changer,   alot of offencees like that I can really remember again. I was just laughing! Yes there was one guy charge for carry Black sack,  na when I hear this I canot control my laughter again.

Mine was that ,  during the time one of the police was checking my wallet, they found a small  broken rusted blade.  I  cannot even remember how it got there, it  was rusted, shows that it has being there for long.  so I was charge for light weapon carrier, guys at this time I was laughing so loud, I was laughing at the failure of Nigeria system,  You need to see the way the officers were saying it,  You are charge for  CARRING LIGHT WEAPON, each time I ask which weapon?, they would show me the rusted broken blade, i would laugh so loud!

Others paid to gain their fredom, and when they saw that I was just catching fun with them, they have to let me go, but I was just laughing at Nigeria as a  country.

LoveKing:

if i had a gun ill shoot bluetooth and newseditor before i reply them. Thats my mo. When this happened today i thought about the jos killings and so many other things. I was like wtf! What will make me love this country. Not becos of dbanj or nairaland or money?

charlie193:

@ Poster
Thank God that you came out 5 hours leter. My experience in naija at yaba one morninig kept me thinking,  and I had this resolution that Nigeria is  an "hopeless" country. sorry if I sound too negative, but that is the truth! mayb for now. I wait to see the change soon,

I finished my engineering degree in one of the Nigeria useless university without job.  One morning, I was walking along yaba area trying to look for where to fix my glasses along the road. Suddenly, a Bus -  commercial bus - packed very close to where I was standing and a group of guys came out from the Bus and order me to go inside that they are Police office. I refused, untill I was shown their Police ID. I entered the bus, hoping that they will tell me my offence. I was thinking my offence  maybe that I was fixing my pair of glassses with those guys along the road not using a registered Optian, so I planned to tell them that I was unemployed so I can afford the consultant fee of an optomologist or optian. Inshot I teck to Yaba that day,

Alas, that was not my offence. I was told to show my ID, which I did   showing my National ID. Then they collected my wallet, searching for only God knows what! I have alot of Busiiness contact  card inside my wallet. I have only the money I wanted to use to get the glasses fix. The Bus was still moving all this time, I guess the Driver is not a police officer.



In the Bus I meet some other guys. We were all taken to the  Police barrack at somewhere in surulere. At the station,  the police officers are giving all of us our offences.  Guys please my u na follow me hear offences

One guy was told that because his laptop has no receipt, means that he is a Yahoo Boy, another guy among us was told that since he is a student of Unilag, that he should be in school at that time why was he in Yaba, that it either he is a pick pocket or fake money changer,  alot of offencees like that I can really remember again. I was just laughing! Yes there was one guy charge for carry Black sack, na when I hear this I canot control my laughter again.

Mine was that ,  during the time one of the police was checking my wallet, they found a small  broken rusted blade.  I  cannot even remember how it got there, it  was rusted, shows that it has being there for long.  so I was charge for light weapon carrier, guys at this time I was laughing so loud, I was laughing at the failure of Nigeria system, You need to see the way the officers were saying it, You are charge for  CARRING LIGHT WEAPON, each time I ask which weapon?, they would show me the rusted broken blade, i would laugh so loud!

Others paid to gain their fredom, and when they saw that I was just catching fun with them, they have to let me go, but I was just laughing at Nigeria as a  country.

charlie193:

@ Poster
Thank God that you came out 5 hours leter. My experience in naija at yaba one morninig kept me thinking,   and I had this resolution that Nigeria is  an "hopeless" country. sorry if I sound too negative, but that is the truth! mayb for now. I wait to see the change soon,

I finished my engineering degree in one of the Nigeria useless university without job.  One morning, I was walking along yaba area trying to look for where to fix my glasses along the road. Suddenly, a Bus -  commercial bus - packed very close to where I was standing and a group of guys came out from the Bus and order me to go inside that they are Police office. I refused, untill I was shown their Police ID. I entered the bus, hoping that they will tell me my offence. I was thinking my offence  maybe that I was fixing my pair of glassses with those guys along the road not using a registered Optian, so I planned to tell them that I was unemployed so I can afford the consultant fee of an optomologist or optian. Inshot I teck to Yaba that day,

Alas, that was not my offence. I was told to show my ID, which I did   showing my National ID. Then they collected my wallet, searching for only God knows what! I have alot of Busiiness contact  card inside my wallet. I have only the money I wanted to use to get the glasses fix. The Bus was still moving all this time,  I guess the Driver is not a police officer.



In the Bus I meet some other guys. We were all taken to the  Police barrack at somewhere in surulere. At the station,  the police officers are giving all of us our offences.  Guys please my u na follow me hear offences

One guy was told that because his laptop has no receipt, means that he is a Yahoo Boy, another guy among us was told that since he is a student of Unilag, that he should be in school at that time why was he in Yaba, that it either he is a pick pocket or fake money changer,   alot of offencees like that I can really remember again. I was just laughing! Yes there was one guy charge for carry Black sack,  na when I hear this I canot control my laughter again.

Mine was that ,  during the time one of the police was checking my wallet, they found a small  broken rusted blade.  I  cannot even remember how it got there, it  was rusted, shows that it has being there for long.  so I was charge for light weapon carrier, guys at this time I was laughing so loud, I was laughing at the failure of Nigeria system,  You need to see the way the officers were saying it,  You are charge for  CARRING LIGHT WEAPON, each time I ask which weapon?, they would show me the rusted broken blade, i would laugh so loud!

Others paid to gain their fredom, and when they saw that I was just catching fun with them, they have to let me go, but I was just laughing at Nigeria as a  country.

Kobojunkie:


Now I am moved even more to attack you folks. What have you done about this ABUSE of your person?  People cannot, in a democracy, continue to DO NOTHING about these men. NO one is going to hand you FREEDOM on a platter of Gold. We have many unemployed lawyers out there  . . . get some who are with you and use them to get yourselves Justice. If person 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 . . . .100. . . . 1000 do this, more and more people will get pushed to act. But when  persons 1, 2,3,4,5,6,7,  . . . . 100 .  . . 10000 . . . do nothing, nothing will change.

Now don't confuse me with the ninny's telling you you are dumb for being angry. What I am saying is simply that your story is not new, what are you going to do about it/what did you do about it? That is the gist we want to hear!

Na since 2007, I don dey dey watch people come on here to complain. I just wonder at what point we will get people come in to tell us how they took on the problem.

Sadly, most people will never do anything about it. Come to think of it, what class of people suffer this kind of assault? The middle and poor class, why you may ask me because they don't have money, car, or the good things of life to afford the best things. The OP was definitely walking along the street and not driving in some expensive tinted Mercedes Benz or the latest Honda Accord or Toyota Camry.

That apart, how many people have personal Lawyers in Nigeria. As learned as i am, i don't even have one yet, although planning on getting one soon. Then you think of the cost to keep a Lawyer whom we think doesn't serve any purpose to us. The stereotype in Nigeria is that Lawyers are meant for the rich, famous, politicians and criminals. Hence we feel we don't need them.

Then think again, would you dare fight against the Nigeria Police and be accidentally shot dead   I come from a family that has produced one Commissioner of Police and an Assistant Commissioner of Police, but truth is i still hate the Police like hell. I hate the Police because of what they represent. Only the high ranking officers and the learned ones among can be said to be sane and handle cases the right way. The average police man on the street is like a roaring lion looking for who to devour. I see them as demons and agents of the devil, unleashing threats, death and pain on the people they are suppose to protect.

LoveKing:

if i had a gun ill shoot bluetooth and newseditor before i reply them. Thats my mo. When this happened today i thought about the jos killings and so many other things. I was like wtf! What will make me love this country. Not becos of dbanj or nairaland or money?

bhusayor:

LWKMD, pele,the experience could really be frustrating, but as long as you re still in nigeria, pls love it  

you again? i just wonder how you reason  
@ bolded is a dumb, so once we start moving around with the receipts to our properties,the population of  thieves will definitely reduce
You and tosin wateva are alwys feeling like 'know it all'
i hope you are always with the receipts to your phones.footwears, shirts, boxers ,whateva it is that you have on, RUBBISH!

eros:

Sadly, most people will never do anything about it. Come to think of it, what class of people suffer this kind of assault? The middle and poor class, why you may ask me because they don't have money, car, or the good things of life to afford the best things. The OP was definitely walking along the street and not driving in some expensive tinted Mercedes Benz or the latest Honda Accord or Toyota Camry.

That apart, how many people have personal Lawyers in Nigeria. As learned as i am, i don't even have one yet, although planning on getting one soon. Then you think of the cost to keep a Lawyer whom we think doesn't serve any purpose to us. The stereotype in Nigeria is that Lawyers are meant for the rich, famous, politicians and criminals. Hence we feel we don't need them.

Then think again, would you dare fight against the Nigeria Police and be accidentally shot dead   I come from a family that has produced one Commissioner of Police and an Assistant Commissioner of Police, but truth is i still hate the Police like hell. I hate the Police because of what they represent. Only the high ranking officers and the learned ones among can be said to be sane and handle cases the right way. The average police man on the street is like a roaring lion looking for who to devour. I see them as demons and agents of the devil, unleashing threats, death and pain on the people they are suppose to protect.

buzugee:

calm your butt down. same thing happens to me in america everyday. cuz a brother is driving a car with tinted windows i get harassed and thrown in police cell for hours on end over trumped up charges. needless to say, i have removed the tint from my car.

mithel:

forgot to add dat,while waitin ,a guy was brought into the station.offence:was accused of toastin a female police officer.it was d gal dat told the male officers to get the guy,she was shoutin bloody civilian n bul*shits,i pity dat guy dat day,cme see as mopol dey slap d guy lyk say dem dey dust rug,d gal was feelin fly n she was so wowo,u wud know it was makeup dat upgraded her, 9ja is a country u hate to love,but u just av to luv your fada land

bk.babe97y:

Damn, all this shiyyt is sad, man.

And some folks really wanna vote in the same dudes that led your country astray?

Wow!



p.s: If u vote GEJ you need to get poisoned, then rap*ed by 19 se*x starved men, shot up with the most potent Heroin available, force-fed pure Peruvian Cocai*ne until you pass out. Then you should be transported to a hospital, revived just when your about to flat-line, then the whole process started all over again. Poison, Ra.pe and so on. . . . . . .