The police in Ijede, Ikorodu, Lagos State, has released Segun Akile, the physically challenged commercial tricycle driver arrested on Monday.

Akile’s release was said to have been authorised by Sunday Oluwadare, the DPO of Ijede Police Station.

Akile was released on Monday night, hours after FIJ reported how some policemen attached to the station detained and tagged him a cultist for refusing to offer them a ₦100 bribe.

Confirming the development to FIJ, Karima Adedapo, one of Akile’s passengers who witnessed the incident, said Oluiwadare invited her to the station after his officers had detained the driver for several hours.

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She told FIJ that Akile was released moments after she returned to the station to honour the DPO’s invitation.

“I met the DPO, and they brought Akile out of the cell and said he should go,” Adedapo told FIJ.

“They, however, held his tricycle and asked that he bring its documents on Tuesday before they would let him have it.

“Thank you so much for your help. I really appreciate it.”

Oluwadare had called FIJ on Monday to narrate the driver’s ordeal.

On Tuesday morning, FIJ spoke with Akile on the matter and he relieved his experience in Pidgin English.

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“Yesterday, dem lock me, but later the DPO say make dem leave me, make I de go,” Akile told FIJ. “This morning, dem say make I bring the person wey give me the keke, and bring the particulars.

“When I reach there, dem collect the particulars, but the man wey give me the keke no follow me go the station, so they say make I call am. The police still beat me this morning.

“Dem don release me, but the man wey get the keke de come now to collect the keke. Thank you, sir.”

Ojukwu is a reporter with FIJ in partnership with Report for the World, which matches local newsrooms with talented emerging journalists to report on under-covered issues around the globe.