The family of an Assistant Superintendent of Police attached to the Osun State Command, Tolulope Abiodun Adebayo-Adeshile, has demanded the whereabouts of their son and four of his colleagues.
According to the family of the Police Officer, their son and his colleagues have not been seen since February 12.
According to the father of ASP Adebayo-Adeshile, Adebayo Sheu Adeshile, his son, who serves in the Criminal Investigation Department of the Osun State Police Command and five other policemen were dispatched on an operational assignment to Abia State on February 12, 2024.
The father said: “I am aware of the fact that himself (ASP Adebayo-Adeshile) and the team slept over at an hotel in Asaba, Delta State on the night of that day before they left for Abia State on Tuesday, 13th February, 2024.
“I became worried when his (ASP Adebayo-Adeshile’s) phone line became non-available to calls from around 10am (13th February, 2024) even till Thursday 15th February, 2024, and had to place calls to his co-officers and friends who insisted that I need to come down to Osogbo for information regarding him, as they have no information and most importantly that they are not even in position to give any.”
According to the father of the ASP, he reported to the Osun State Police Command on February 15, 2024, and met with the Deputy Commissioner in charge of the State CID.
He said he is yet to receive any official information, apart from: “We are still looking for them.”
Adeshile said he is surprised about the command’s response because “the route taken, their last location (because they were still in Imo State when contact was lost) and their destination is known”.
He said he was in Osogbo between February 15 and 26, 2024 on the matter, and at the police command nearly everyday, but he is “yet to get any tangible and reassuring official update on the whereabouts nor of the physical state of my son”.
He said he was told by the command that one of the policemen on the ill-fated operation escaped and has returned to Osogbo.
According to him, the escapee reportedly told the State CID that the team was attacked, while the vehicle in which the policemen travelled is yet to be located.
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Adeshile is worried that there has been no update from the police on the incident.
He is asking Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, to look into the matter.
The Force Public Relations Officer and Assistant Commissioner of Police, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, was yet to respond to a message sent to him earlier in the day.
So also has the Osun State Police Command not issued any statement on the development.
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