Police Deny Arresting Good Samaritan

Police on Wednesday denied that a Good Samaritan, Happiness, who picked up a missing four-year-old girl, has been arrested. .

A story shared on Facebook, by a banker, Akinmade Boluwaji, had accused the police of unjust arrest of Sister Happiness, a member of RCCG, Glory Worship Centre, who found a child near the Ifako canal on July 20 and took her to the church and later to a police station.

However, in denying the claim, the state Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni, who warned Lagos residents to stop acts that could pit the people against security forces, said: “I am amazed at the things some people do to gain public sympathy. .

When I invited them, all the parties, it was discovered that the issue was not the way the writer painted it. Even the pastor they came with was begging on his behalf because we could have arrested him for peddling falsehood. .

What actually happened was that the woman, instead of asking around to find out where the little girl came from, she took her to her own house and left her there from that morning till about 9:00 p.m. when she returned from work. .

By that time, they have started looking for the child. She then took her to the church and from there to Alakara Police Station. She never told anyone that she found a little girl and took her to Alakara Police Station.

Then, after about six days, the woman told someone that she found a little girl and she was taken to Alakara Police Station. By the time, the child’s guardians have received an anonymous message demanding money for her release. .

So, was the DPO wrong to suspect foul play? Okay, the woman was arrested and the writer contacted an Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), as he claimed, who spoke with the DPO and she was granted bail.”

Credit:- TheNation