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| Police PPRO Frank Mba and Women Arise Exec. Director, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin |
The Nigeria Police Force today paraded ten suspects arrested in connection with the torture, murder and sodomy of three females accused of stealing pepper in the Ejigbo area of Lagos State, an event that occured in February 2013.
The police held a conference at the Special Anti-Robbery Squad unit in Lagos, parading the suspects.
The paraded suspects included the Babaloja of the Ejigbo Market, Isiaka Waheed, the Iyaloja and several others persons involved in the heinous crime.
Addressing the press, the Police PPRO, Mr. Frank Mba declared four other suspects who are still at large, wanted.
Those wanted in the crime include Tiri (surname unknown), the suspect who stripped the young girl naked and also captured the torture on tape; Tepa Oluranti
Akeem (surname unknown) and Michael Abolore.
The Nigeria police headquarters , the Lagos State Office of the Public Defender (OPD) and civil society organizations led by the Women Arise team thanked members of the public who volunteered information that helped in tracking the suspects. They urged the public to assist with information that could lead to the arrest of the other suspects at large.
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