The Lagos State Police Command is probing the alleged assault on a woman, Tope Segun, by suspected members of the Oodua Individuals’s Congress.
Tope accused the OPC members of brutalising her in Olodan, the Ijora Badia space of Lagos.
She mentioned the incident occurred on the occasion of her former boyfriend, recognized merely as Atari, whom she claimed invited the boys to “self-discipline” her brother, Abdulahi, whom she mentioned earlier had a conflict with Atari.
Tope, who was seen to have sustained accidents in video clips obtained by PUNCH Metro, demanded justice as she famous that she was crushed to a stupor by the boys whereas she was attempting to save lots of her brother from them.
Whereas talking in an interview with our correspondent on Thursday, she mentioned, “We’re nonetheless on the matter.”
Earlier on Wednesday, she informed PUNCH Metro that, “My former boyfriend got here to our home on Olodan Avenue, Ijora Badia on Friday, December 29, 2023, and met my brother. My brother informed him to not enter the home; he mustn’t sit in our mattress and that he ought to name my line since I used to be not round and I used to be the one he wished to see.”
In response to Tope, her brother didn’t like Atari. “He (Atari) then hit my brother on the chest and so they started combating. Certainly one of our siblings then screamed out to me that my brother and Atari had been having a combat. So after I acquired there I began hitting him with one thing and he left however he went to ask members of the OPC to come back and self-discipline my brother.
“When the OPC males got here, they started hitting my brother with planks. They beat him from our place in direction of the OPC’s base. After I acquired there to hunt my brother’s launch, telling them our father simply died, they had been asking if I knew the place I got here to. Certainly one of them took a grinding machine belt and flogged me with it. I used to be slapped. I used to be working to the opposite avenue, and one among them adopted me and stored hitting me with the belt. I insisted I have to take my brother house.”
Tope mentioned by the point she acquired house after the incident, she realised her physique had been swelling. “I and my brother couldn’t sleep. My brother couldn’t stroll correctly.”
She added, “On New Yr Eve, we reported the matter on the police station in Pako, Amukoko. The matter has reached the Space Command and the man was launched to be going and coming again to the station. They mentioned we must always come by 2 pm at the moment (Wednesday).”
Tope mentioned opposite to appeals by involved individuals to settle the case amicably, she didn’t need the case to be swept below the carpet.
A resident within the space, who shared a video displaying higher components of Tope’s physique with scars suspected to have resulted from the beating, mentioned the sufferer was severely crushed.
“They beat the woman an excessive amount of,” the resident, Lawal Aliu, mentioned.
One other resident who spoke on situation of anonymity for worry of being focused by the suspects, mentioned, “This woman was crushed by one OPC member, who is thought for terrorising Ijora Badia space. He was reported on the police station relating to this situation. He was detained for under a day as an alternative of being charged to court docket the subsequent woman. This woman is susceptible.”
Contacted on Wednesday, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, who confirmed the incident, mentioned it was incorrect to say the suspect was launched as if the case had been discharged.
“He was launched on bail as he’s entitled to it, and all events concerned had been requested to fulfill at the moment (Wednesday) at 2pm on the Space Commander’s workplace,” the PPRO mentioned in a response despatched to our correspondent by way of textual content when requested in regards to the incident.
An official of the OPC faction headed by Gani Adams, who requested to not be quoted but, promised to research the matter and get again to our correspondent.