Genuine Indictment 'Cop requested sex from me in return for safeguard' - Female theft suspect

A female merchant who was captured amid a strike has arraigned her IPO of requesting for sex before he could discharge her. !

A 27-year-old lady who is standing trial for equipped burglary, Victoria Amodu, stunned a court sitting in Lagos State when she uncovered that an Investigative Police Officer [IPO], surrounded her for declining to have intercourse with him in return for her safeguard.

The speculate prosecuted the IPO connected to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad [SARS], Ikeja Division, of requesting that her offer him sex so he could discharge her from guardianship yet when she can't, he charged her to court.

Punch reports that Amodu, a broker, and mother of four, was giving her proof in boss before Justice Kudirat Jose when she was charged for claimed scheme and furnished theft.

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The woman who was charged close by one Hammed Isiaka, on a six-tally charge of trick to confer theft and outfitted burglary, said she was captured in the Badagry territory of the state while selling bread and when she was arrested, the IPO requested sex in return for her flexibility.

While being driven in confirm by her direction, Nelson Onyejaka, Amodu disclosed to Justice Jose that she was unreasonably captured by the police on August 12, 2014, at Church Bus stop, Badagry.

She portrayed that she was offering bread at the transport stop when policemen attacked the territory and captured her and others, packaged them into their truck and took them to the SARS base camp.

"I was captured by the police while I was pitching bread and taken to the station at SARS, Ikeja. An IPO there instructed me to call somebody that would seek my safeguard.

I called a neighbor, a woman that causes me take care of my children. When she arrived, the IPO said a lady couldn't sign my safeguard bond, which he put at N400,000.

I wound up plainly stressed in light of the fact that I didn't know any man to call since I was never again living with my significant other and I was likewise new in Lagos.

I chose to call my dad however he declined to go to the station. He said since I was hitched, he had no turn in anything concerning me.

I didn't realize what else to do right now, so I began asking the IPO to release me and deal with my children since I didn't submit any offense.

The IPO took me outside the cell to a corner and said that I am a pretty woman and that on the off chance that I submit myself to him, I would be liberated.

I got irate and yelled at him, inquiring as to why he would put forth such an expression to me. He promptly dragged me back to the cell.

Some other people who were captured that day were discharged after they paid cash, however I don't know the amount they paid.

Evenings after, the IPO drew out some case records and let me know and others in the cell to sign them. He said that when we were done the marking, we would be discharged.

I consented to sign the archives on the condition that he would not touch me. Be that as it may, the other men cannot, saying they couldn't sign what they didn't have a clue.

The IPO promptly drew out his weapon and undermined to shoot them in the event that they didn't sign and they frightfully marked it. Subsequent to marking the archives, we were altogether taken to a Magistrates Court and from that point, to Kirikiri Prison," Amodu clarified.

In the wake of hearing her declaration, Justice José alluded the case document to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions [DPP], for exhorted while she dismissed the case till November 29, 2017, for selection of conclusive locations.