By Christopher Oji
Kazeem Solabi has decried what he described as an attempt to blackmail the police, in order to incite them against his family.
He, therefore, condemned a viral video on the internet, where a resident of Ologede village, Sokoto Road, Atan, Ogun State, Lucky Agunnge, accused the police of aiding land grabbing. Lucky, in the viral video, had accused the police in Atan of releasing alleged land grabbers, who attacked him.
Solabi said: “I am disappointed in what our people have turned the social media to. They now see it as a tool to manipulate people around them.
“The man in the said video is supposed to be one of my family’s tenants, but he bought the land from the judgement debtor. We had a case up to the Supreme Court and my family won. It is expected that those affected by the judgement should do the necessary things by ratifying their documents.
“Others in the area are cooperating with us, but this man, Lucky, insisted that he won’t pay us and each time we tried to talk to him, he was always violent and unleashed his dog on us. Some days ago, we tried to talk to him and he unleashed his dog on us. We freed ourselves from him and escaped from the dog, only for him to return with policemen and accuse us of attacking him.
“As a law abiding citizen, I volunteered to go with them to the police station but, surprisingly, on our way to the police station.
he started hitting me in the police van and inflicted serious injuries on my nose and face. The policemen were disappointed and they chastised him.
“When we got to the police station, the DPO saw the two of us and instructed his officers to give the two of us medical reports to go and treat ourselves and return to the station. I was still recovering from the injury he inflicted on me, when I got a report that he had gone online to make false accusations against us and even indicted the police. There, at the station, he confessed to the DPO that he was the one who bit me in the leg and, also, punched me in the face. When the DPO threatened to arraign both of us in court, he pleaded that he should not do so and promised to return to the police station. They are still expecting us.”
A police source, who pleaded anonymity, said: “It is true that he was at the station to report a case of assault on him, but he also assaulted the other man, even in the presence of policemen. Already, there was a report against him that he unleashed his dog on people in the area. The case is still on. The patties were only allowed to go and treat themselves and return”.