Edgal Imohimi, the new Lagos State commissioner of police, has ordered the removal of the officer-in-charge, Anti-Kidnapping and Anti-Cultism Squad, State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Akinade Adejobi.
CSP Adejobi and his officers were alleged to have taken N50,000 for the bail of one Blessing Taiwo over an alleged theft.
They were also alleged to have seized the victim’s phone pending when a balance of N20,000 would be paid on Tuesday, September 5, 2017.
Blessing’s sister, Florence, had claimed she (Florence) was sexually harassed by the policemen who put hands into her private parts and breasts anytime she took food to her sister in the cell where Blessing was locked up with a mad woman.
She had said one of the policemen had been pestering her with telephone calls, asking to see her.
CP Imohimi was appointed in late August 2017 as the new commissioner of police for the Lagos State Command, following his recent promotion to by the Police Service Commission.
A seasoned police officer, Imohimi, who was until his promotion, the deputy commissioner of police, DCP, in-charge-of Operations, in Lagos State, was instrumental in ending activities of the dreaded Badoo cult and militants carrying out kidnappings within Ikorodu and its adjoining communities.
He was enlisted into the Nigeria Police Force, as a cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police, on February 2, 1986, serving in various commands and formations of the NPF within the country in several capacities, spending most of his days at the Lagos State Police Command.
A 1984 graduate of Art at the University of Jos, who went on to bag a Masters Degree in Public and International Affairs at the University of Lagos in 2004,Imohimi is highly trained on Community and Intelligence Gathering Policing, enabling him in organising the first Community Policing summits in Ikeja GRA, Lagos State.
