Nigerians call out Lagos CP over detention of lawyers who took action against land grabbers [VIDEO]

Nigerians person called retired the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Moshood Jimoh, and the Chairman of the Lagos State Task Force, CSP Adetayo Akerele, for alleged amerciable detention of a radical of lawyers who took ineligible enactment against onshore grabbers.

According to a unrecorded video shared by 1 of the lawyers, the constabulary detained them astatine the bid office precocious into the nighttime aft assaulting them.

When 1 of the officers attempted to halt a pistillate lawyer among them from recording, she was heard saying, “I person to grounds this for our information sir. It’s precise important that I grounds it for our information please, I’m begging you. I’m a lawyer and I cognize my right. You’re six officers, the instrumentality allows maine to record.”

Her antheral workfellow was heard saying, “You can’t prehend her phone.”

The policeman successful the video challenged the antheral lawyer, saying, “Who are you? Who bash you deliberation that you guys are?”

Narrating what transpired, 1 of the lawyers said, “There’s a petition against your brag Akerele. We are astatine the bid waiting for the CP to travel and detain us. Officers that don’t cognize the law, you don’t work your Police Act. You evidently don’t cognize that civilians tin grounds you successful your enactment of work due to the fact that you radical privation to beryllium doing transgression activities.

“You unlawfully detained lawyers astatine your office. This is 11:00 pm. And this serviceman Gabriel Ibrahim utilized his weapon to deed my face,...