Following public outcry, the Lagos Police Command has arrested an officer identified as Owolabi who was linked to the rape of a 17-year-old girl inside the police station in Ojota axis of the state.
As gathered, the police officer had been on the run after parents of the victims turned down all appeals from his family and relatives not to press for justice for their daughter.
The arrest of Owolabi came barely 24 hours after reports emanated that the police officer had been on the run after perpetrating the act to the teenager.
The spokesperson for the Lagos Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, who disclosed this on Saturday, through his official social media handle, said that the law enforcement officer has arrested and under detention for interrogation.
Hundeyin, in a short terse statement made while responding to Lagosians outcry to the act, said: “Suspect now in custody”.
It was learnt that the suspect arrest was aided by the Commissioner of Police, Lagos Command, Adegoke Fayoade, who ordered that the suspect trailed and arrest immediately for interrogation.
Prior to the act, the officer had promised to help the teenager retrieve her phone, which had been taken by ‘one chance’ robbers on June 16 while the victim, her grandmother, and siblings were returning from Ikeja.
The suspect reportedly overheard the teenager recounting her ordeal to her mother at her shop and offered to help track her missing phone and take her statement.
“On June 29, officer Owolabi called my mum on her phone and told her he had arrested the person with my phone and my mum should send me to his police station and I went there. On getting there, I was told they made a mistake with the tracking, and that the person caught wasn’t the one with my phone.
“The officer sent his personal assistant to call me into his office and he showed me directions there. When I entered his office and greeted him, he replied and got up to lock the door and put the key in his pocket. I shouted, ‘Sir, why did you lock the door?’
“He started trying to pull my clothes off and I shouted, then he brought out a gun, cocked it, and threatened to shoot me if I shouted. Then he began harassing me and when I struggled with him he hit me on the back of my head with the gun and raped me.
“I saw his phone ringing and the caller was my mum, but he told me since I didn’t have a phone with me, I should tell her I didn’t get to his office and from now on I should be reporting at his office by 12 pm every day during school break or while returning from school that he had been watching me for two years and now I just fell into his trap,” the distraught victim told our correspondent.
