Detectives at the Zone 2, Onikan Command, Lagos, have arrested the investigating police officer at Isheri Osun division, where the case of anal sexual assault of a teenage student was reported.
The 16-year-old boy, Edozie Michael Chiagozie, was allegedly assaulted anally by a famous Lagos hotelier identified as Macdonald Okpara, last year ending, after which the teenager confessed to his mother and later ran mad.
The hotelier was subsequently arrested by detectives from Zone 2, Onikan, who were swiftly directed by the AIG in charge of the Zone, Adegoke Fayoade, to investigate the case.
Reports said that after the arrest of the suspect, his lawyer claimed that they earlier reported the case to the same zone for proper investigation. However, police sources said that when their case file was recovered from one of the units in Zone 2, it was discovered that it was doctored.
Sources said that both a confessional statement made at Isheri Osun division by another teenager simply called Balogun, who suffered the same fate and reports from doctors at Mirable Center at the General Hospital, Ikeja, Lagos, were doctored.
Based on this, according to sources, the AIG directed that more investigations be carried out leading to detectives from the Zonal Oracle unit led by storming Isheri Osun police station.
It was gathered that when they got there, the IPO who delivered the doctored report confessed that he removed some statements from the case file. He later brought out the hidden statements, and it turned out to be that of a second victim who gave vivid details of what the hotelier did to them with documented evidence.
The rattled detectives reportedly moved him to their office, where he is still undergoing interrogation with a view to disclosing who engaged him to remove the documents and how much he was paid.
Reports said that earlier when detectives stormed the house of the hotelier at Egbeda area of the state for fact finding, he nearly deceived them by taking them to a hidden hideout but the detectives cleverly beat him to it and succeeded in locating his main house but it is yet to be ascertained if any incriminating evidence was found there.
However, sources said that they will also proceed to another of his solitary mansions near the hotel at Bucknor in Ejigbo division after they recieved information that the mansion is always isolated and nobody is allowed to enter there.
Meanwhile, it was learned that the detectives may invite the police at Ejigbo division, whose men were accused of playing a clandestine role when detectives at Zone 2 stormed Empire hotel owned by the suspect for his arrest. Police sources alleged that as soon as detectives arrived the hotel and were frantically looking for the owner, he reportedly ran upstairs and made calls to Ejigbo division who sent some armed men to intervene. The source claimed the armed men arrived the scene but instead of allowing detectives from the Zone to carry out their duty, they made overtures for respite for the suspect which resulted in his escape that day.
As it were, police sources hinted that close friends of the suspect have been making overtures to the police at the zone to give him a soft landing without success hence they have resorted to blackmailing detectives by accusing them of making frivolous monetery demands. According to sources, it is believed that some high profile personalities are behind the suspect and are hell-bent on scuttling investigations.
The source, however, assured that the AIG is on top of the case and has vowed to get to the root of the matter without minding whose ox was gored. As at the time of going to press, both the owner of the hotel known as Empire and the IPO are still in police net. Sources said the investigators are optimistic that they will soon make useful statements to the police.
