The family of 40-year-old Osas Azenabor has petitioned the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Olohundare Jimoh, demanding answers following his mysterious disappearance after an alleged arrest by officers in the Mile 12 area on November 1, 2024.
According to the family, Osas was apprehended during a police raid and taken to Ketu Police Station but has not been seen or heard from since.
His father, Francis Azenabor, told Saturday PUNCH that repeated visits to the station yielded no information about his son’s whereabouts.
Concerned by the silence and alleged mistreatment by the police, the family engaged a lawyer, Saidi Sanni, who submitted a formal petition to the police commissioner.
In the petition, the family accused officers at the Ketu Division of unlawfully detaining Osas and refusing to provide any explanation.
They claimed that family members were harassed and even assaulted during attempts to make inquiries, including an incident witnessed by their lawyer.
An excerpt from the petition reads: “We are constrained to write directly to you on this grave matter, following the indiscriminate arrest and disappearance of our client on November 1, 2024, by policemen attached to the Ketu Divisional Police Station, Ketu/Mile 12, Lagos.
Despite multiple visits by his family, no official explanation has been provided, and his younger brother was physically assaulted in the process.”
The family is calling for Osas’s immediate release and for an independent investigation into the circumstances of his detention.
Efforts to contact the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, were unsuccessful, as calls and messages were not returned at the time of filing this report.