Police Threaten To Send Me To Jail Over N100,000 Money For Bail - Suspect Cry Out

A suspect, Wasilat Afeez, has called on the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Olukayode Egbetokun to come to her rescue as a Investigation Police Officer at Sango Ota Police station, Inspector . Odunayo Aremu vowed to send her to prison over an alleged civil matter. 

Wasilat said inspector Odunayo Aremu has threatened to jail her because she allegedly refused to part with N100,000 which she requested from her for bail.

Narrating her ordeal to our Correspondent, Wasilat said Inspector Odunayo Aremu had allegedly secured a fake hospital report which she allegedly submitted to a Magistrate court in Ogun State as evidence to convict her.

According to her, Inspector Odunayo Aremu demanded N100,000 as condition for bail over a case of two fighting.

She narrated that the police division Sango, Ota detained her in cell for 4 days as result of her inability to produce N100,000 for bail

The house wife who lived at Babaonigba community in Ntabo area of Ijoko at Sango, Ogun State, revealed that she was detained over a case of misunderstanding between her and her neighbour, Rasheed Adeshinya.

Her neighbor claimed that she sustained injury during the fight and procured a fake hospital bill from a non registered private hospital at Ijoko area of Sango in the state.

She narrated that while in the cell, a woman Inspector called Odunayo Aremu and also the Investigation Police Officer (IPO) approached her for bail of N50,000 and the hospital bill of N50,000 before she can be released.

The IPO bent on recovering the money for the complainant because she is her best friend.

“When my brother contacted the police authority on the 4th day i was granted bail for free without paying any money. This annoyed the Inspector and she charged the matter to Magistrate court, Ota saying since I cannot pay the money and my brother has used his power I will end up in jailed”

An argument arose between the Inspector and team leader, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP, Victor, who kicked against the hospital bill and declared it an invalid documents to the investigation because there is no evidence of medical attention and treatment in the paper she presented from private the hospital”

Meanwhile, Inspector Odunayo disagree with her superior and proceeded to the Magistrate Court in Ota where she lure the police prosecutor to remand her in prison.

Wasilat has however been remanded until her bail condition is met while the case has been adjourned to March 4, 2025.