Lagos DPO Drags Lover To Herbalist For ‘Stealing’ His Gun

A Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in Lagos State, CSP Adegoke Akinlade, has reportedly taken his alleged lover to a witch doctor in Ebute Meta, Ogun State, for allegedly stealing his pistol after the duo spent a night in his office.

The DPO in charge of the Denton Police Station, Ebute Meta, Lagos, was said to be in romantic relationship with Jennifer Madueke, 29, before the incident but the duo lost contact after he was transferred out of Lagos seven years ago.

When he was returned to Lagos, both met again and reportedly decided to rekindle their relationship, Punch reports.

On Friday, August 27, Madueke reportedly visited Akinlade at his office and passed the night.

The report said she left at about 5 a.m. the following morning and was seen off to the bus stop by the DPO.

Unfortunately, when he returned to his office, Akinlade said he noticed that his pistol and the sum of N50,000 were missing.

“They did not see each other again until last Saturday, September 4, when he invited the girl and told her they should go out,” a source told the Punch.

“However, when she went to see him, he detained her and accused her of stealing his service pistol. He kept her in his cell till Monday, September 6. While the girl was in the cell, he asked his boys to torture her to make confessional statements.

“On that Monday, he took her to a herbalist on Jebba Street, Ebute Meta, Lagos, around 8am. The herbalist told him that it was the girl that took the pistol, but she denied the allegation. It was from there he took her to the SCIID, Yaba, where she has been detained till now”.

However, the DPO denied neither having intimate relationship with the lady nor taking her to any herbalist.

Akinlade was quoted as saying: “She [Madueke] was my girlfriend in 2011, but we separated. About one and a half months ago, while I was around the Stadium area, she came to greet me and that was how she knew where I was working and she started coming. When her coming did not favour me, I told her not to come again.

“On that Friday, I was at a club with one of my friends. It was there a girlfriend came to meet me. Then this lady came later. I never knew that she had a mission. I sent her away and said I was busy.

“The other lady with me told me that she was going to Bariga. She [Madueke] also came but said she could not get a vehicle to her residence that night because it was late. I then left them (both ladies) in the office and went out on a night patrol.

“It was then I started thinking I would go back and wake them up. When I returned, I gave her N4,000 (transport fare) to go.”

Asked if he slept with Madueke, he said, “When two people are in my office? I did not sleep with her. I left them there. Unknown to me, she had gone to pick a bag behind my chair. It was when she left that I discovered that my pistol was missing, with N50,000. I did not even care about the money, but I started calling her, and she did not pick the calls. She also blocked me on WhatsApp.

“We went to prayer houses and consulted alfas, me and the other girl, but we did not find her. I did not see her for one week. I paid people who tracked her”.

The officer said he regretted ‘helping’ Madueke on the night she claimed to be stranded.

He further disclosed that he reported at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID), Yaba and made statements on the theft to help get detectives to recover the gun.

But when the SCIID was contacted, the Deputy Commissioner of Police of the unit, Adegoke Fayoade, said there was no such matter at the SCIID, said the report.