Drama as policemen invade Ondo court premises to arrest bricklayer

Pandemonium broke retired astatine the Ondo State High Court connected Wednesday pursuing the alleged penetration of the tribunal premises by operatives from the Police Special Weapons and Tactics, SWAT, unit, Lagos, who attempted to apprehension 1 Ojo Ajisafe, a 34-year-old bricklayer, implicit a lawsuit that was already earlier the court.

Reports bespeak that Ajisafe was successful tribunal connected Wednesday for proceedings successful a lawsuit of attempted execution linked to a long-running onshore quality successful the Ondo East Local Government Area of the state.

But successful a melodramatic crook of events, the constabulary officers, reportedly from the Lagos State Command, arrived astatine the tribunal analyzable and picked him up portion the lawsuit was being heard.

According to eyewitnesses, the operatives, who were initially not successful uniform, stormed the court, sparking fears that they mightiness beryllium kidnappers.

However, the concern became wide erstwhile those connected the tribunal premises aboriginal discovered that the men were constabulary officers from the Lagos Command.

While the officers were inactive successful court, Ajisafe’s counsel, Femi Akinbinu, alerted the presiding justice astir the devel...