Police Have Arrested Children Over detaining father for 12 months in Lagos

Men of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested Saidat Kazeem and Fatimo Onakoya for allegedly conspiring with other family members to detain their father, Surajudeen Jaji, in a room for 12 months at his residence, No. 47 Maria Okor Street, Bucknor area of the Ejigbo Local Council Development Area of the state.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, Muyiwa Adejobi, confirmed Saidat and Fatimo’s arrest to PUNCH Metro on Wednesday after policemen attached to the Ejigbo Division accompanied by a member of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights, Abdulganiyu Salaudeen, stormed Jaji’s house on Tuesday to rescue him from the room where he was being held in captivity.

Adejobi stated that Saidat and Fatimo would be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti, Yaba, for discreet investigation, while efforts were being made to apprehend their accomplices.

PUNCH Metro had exclusively reported that the septuagenarian was confined to a room in his house by his children, who suspected that he was making plans to sell his property.

To prevent the 77-year-old from carrying out his plan, his children allegedly instructed his maid to prevent visitors from having access to him, but when questions were being asked about Jaji’s whereabouts, the children reportedly claimed that they were keeping him safe from contracting COVID-19.