Posted on: 03:02 Tue, 01 Dec 2015



The whereabouts of a 26-year-old
man, Waidi Kabiru, had been a
mystery since Sunday, November 23,
after he was reportedly whisked
away from the custody of the
Igbogbo Police Station in Lagos State
by a three-man gang wearing mask.
The three gang members, who put on
masks, sneaked into the station
around 1am on Sunday and bundled
him out of the cell to an unknown
place.

According to Punch report, Waidi, a
musician, was arrested by a team of
policemen who raided Shelewu Road,
in the Ikorodu area of the state on
Friday, November 21.

The state police command confirmed
Waidi’s arrest, but said he had been
released on bail. The command,
however, did not disclose the surety
to whom the youth was released.

Waidi’s father, Mr. Bisiriyu Kabiru,
said he had been visiting his son
since Friday when he was arrested,
adding that he had gone to the
station to give him food on Sunday
only to be told that he was no longer
inside the cell.

He said, “He called me on the phone
around 9am on Friday that he was
arrested during a raid and I went to
the station to see him.

One of the policemen I met asked me
how much I had to bail him out and I
said N4,000. But he told me it wasn’t
enough and I left.

I later came back with N5,000, but I
was told that the DPO had taken over
the case.

“On Saturday, I brought food for him
(Waidi) at the station and was there
till the evening, trying to secure his
bail.

When I got there on Sunday to give
him food, the policemen at the
counter said he had gone out with
the DPO.

But I was not allowed to see the DPO.

I later learnt that he was whisked out
of the cell early Sunday morning by
three men who were masked. It was
on Monday that I decided to inform
his mother.”

Waidi’s mother, Karimat Adebanbi,
said she went to the station on
Monday and was shown a register
containing details of suspects.

According to her, the record reads
that Waidi was nabbed during a
raid, but had been released.

The mother said the policemen
directed her to the DPO when she
demanded to know the person that
stood as a surety for him. She added
that her efforts to meet with the DPO
were frustrated by his men.

She said, “The policemen I met at the
station called my son from the cell,
but nobody answered.

They checked the register and saw
his name there, indicating that he
had been released on bail. I asked
them who stood as a surety for him,
but they refused to tell me.

They told me to look for him at his
friends’ houses. We don’t know his
whereabouts and his number is
switched off.

“I went to the station again on
Thursday and Saturday to see the
DPO; they said he was not around.

I called him several times before he
picked his call. He said he was
somewhere and told me to wait. I
waited for hours but he did not come
back.”

The family had also petitioned the
state Commissioner of Police, Fatai
Owoseni, through an activist, Prince
Akinsemoyin, to investigate Waidi’s
disappearance from the cell.

The petition also requested the CP to
quiz the DPO and policemen
involved in the case to by all means
find out the circumstances
surrounding the man’s
disappearance.