Family petitions police over missing son

The family of Osas Azenabor, who was reportedly arrested by the police on November 1, 2024, at the Mile 12 area of Lagos State, has petitioned the Lagos Commissioner of Police, Olohundare Jimoh, demanding an investigation into his disappearance.

According to the family, Osas was taken to the Ketu Police Station and has not returned home since.

Saturday news gathered from the family that the 40-year-old Osas was one of the people arrested by the police during a raid in the Mile 12 area of the state.

His father, Francis Azenabor, told our correspondent that Osas whereabouts had remained unknown after he was arrested, prompting the family to petition the police commissioner.

In the petition filed by its legal counsel, Saidi Sanni, the family demanded a thorough investigation into Osas’s whereabouts.

The family urged the commissioner of police to secure Osas’s release and investigate the reasons behind his prolonged detention.

The petition partly read, “We are constrained to write directly to you on this matter of grave importance against the backdrop of the indiscriminate arrest and disappearance of our client by policemen attached to Ketu Divisional Police Station, Ketu/Mile12, Lagos on the 1st day of November, 2024.

For the avoidance of doubt, our client’s family were at the Ketu Divisional Police Station countless times and it’s either they were humiliated or harassed of which I witnessed one myself where the police could not give an explanation of what happened after the arrest of our client. Rather, we were bullied and the younger brother of our client was physically assaulted in the process.”

“We therefore strongly appeal to you to call the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ketu as at 1st day of November, 2024 and all policemen attached to the division to release our client without further delay and an investigative enquiry should be opened to ascertained the reason and where they hold our client hostage since the 1st day of November, 2024.”

Efforts to reach the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, were unsuccessful, as calls and messages went unanswered at the time of filing this report.