Read how Ambode's convoy apprehends Airforce cadets for locking boy in car trunk

Read the press statement below...
The convoy of the Lagos State Governor,
Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday
apprehended two Airforce cadets in Mile
12 area of the State while dehumanizing
an artisan, Dahiru Lawal for allegedly
breaking the windscreen of a Chrysler
Stratus car with registration number KRD
267 DV.
The cadets – Peters O. Solomon and
Abdullahi Fahad, who claimed to be Airforce
personnel attached to the Airforce Base in
Ikeja, had forced Lawal in the boot of their car
after dragging him on the ground for the said
offence.
Governor Ambode, who was returning from an
inspection visit to Agbowa in Ikorodu, saw the
situation and swiftly intervened to save Lawal
who was gasping for breath.
The Governor wondered how such inhuman
treatment could be meted to a fellow citizen
just for slightly breaking the windscreen of a
car.
When questioned by journalists, the cadets
admitted putting Lawal in the boot of their
car.
According to them, Lawal tried to escape after
breaking the windscreen and ran into the
nearby market where they eventually chased
and apprehended him.
Peters said: “What happened is that the boy
broke the windscreen in front of my car. When
I stopped, I asked him to come, the boy ran
away. We have to drag him back and put him
in the boot.”
“I kind of threatened his boss that he is
working with and when his boss came and
looked at what he did to me, that was when I
put him inside the boot for the remaining ones
to go and call the boss. Not that I locked the
boot, I only put him inside the boot, but I did
not lock the boot,” he said.
Also Abdullahi said himself and Peters were
along Mile 12 after visiting a friend when they
heard a knack on their windscreen and they
saw Lawal attempting to escape.
“We now run inside the market and dragged
him (Lawal) down. I was even asking who he
is working with because I want to see his Oga
since I know he cannot repair my damaged
windscreen. I want to see the man he is
working with so that we can settle everything
with him. I now told my colleague that we
should hand him over to Airforce police at the
Airforce Base,” Abdullahi said.
While narrating his ordeal in the hands of the
cadets, Lawal who hails from Kaduna State,
said he mistakenly damaged the windscreen
with the load he carried, and that he took to
his heels because he was afraid of what they
might do to him.
He said: “I ran into the market and they
pursued me and caught me inside the market.
They started beating me and dragged me to
their car.”

“I ran because I was afraid of what the cadets
might do to me, while my boss and people
around begged on my behalf, but their pleas
fell on deaf ears.”

“The police also came to plead with them to
open the boot but they insisted on taking me
away and it was at that point that the convoy
of the Governor arrived to rescue me from the
boot of the car where they kept me,” Lawal
said.

He added that he lost his cell phone and the
sum of N5, 000 which he was having on him
at the point that he was being dragged on the
floor.
The Governor had since ordered that the
suspects be handed over to the police for
further investigation and possible
prosecution.

SIGNED
HABIB ARUNA
CHIEF PRESS SECRETARY
DECEMBER 30, 2015