WONDERS SHALL NEVER END.....Lagos state Police rescue 13 Children, 15 Adults chained in a house

hmmm.....na wa ooo...Men of the Lagos state Police command over the weekend rescued 13 children and 15 adults chained and locked up by one Emmanuel Adeyemi at the Oke-ira area of Ojodu, Lagos. Thisday reports that the police were able to rescue the chained persons while acting on a tipoff. Initial intelligence report had suggested that a teenager was chained in the house at Oyinbo Unity Estate, Olamidun Close, Yakoyo, Oke-Ira, Ojodu but when the police got to the said house, they discovered others that were chained.


Commenting on the incident, the state public relations officer, Dolapo Badmos, said

“The command received a report through Area ‘G’ Command Headquarters, Ogba, that a child was chained in a house at Oyinbo Unity Estate, Olamidun Close, Yakoyo, Oke-Ira, Ojodu. Consequently, a team of policemen was mobilized to the location where a teenager named Toba Adedoyin ‘m’, aged 17, was found in a room with a chain on his legs. 

The victim was allegedly chained by one Emmanuel Adeyemi ‘m’ who claimed to be his father, in order to restrain him from going out. Further search of the premises led to the discovery of other people chained by the suspect. A total number of 28 persons, comprising six adult males, nine adult females, seven female children and six male children were rescued and taken to protective custody. A suspect has been arrested and is currently undergoing interrogation as the command is working assiduously to get to the root of the occurrence”