-Lady Alleges Police Insisted Victim Must Make Reports Herself
By Kamil Opeyemi
The Nigeria Police Force have been accused of failing to act until a lady was allegedly murdered by her boyfriend.
NPO Reported earlier that the police attention was called by neighbours to the lifeless bodies of Adebayo Adeseko and Sarah Adesanya in their apartment in the Ojodu Berger area of Lagos at the weekend.
The scene, according to police account, showed that the lady was subjected to violence before she reportedly gave up.
Knowing that she had died, the boyfriend had reportedly stabbed himself to death with his remains found in the pool of his blood in the apartment.
Sister to the deceased female lover who was a fashion stylist, claimed that she made a report of the series of violence attacks on her sister while she was alive but the police failed to take actions.
The sister who goes by the name @lahyorbronze on X, the social media platform formerly called Twitter, said the police said they could not take any action unless the victim herself came forward to lodge a complaint.
She did not state which police division she visited to make her complaints.
“I reported at the station but the police said they cant do anything until she makes the report herself,” she wrote on her X handle.
She said since last year, neighbours had contacted her to hint on the frequent physical abuse of her sister.
She revealed that several times she raised the matter with her sister, she denied that she was being assaulted.
However, a neighbour kept advising her that her sister needed to be rescued from the constant assaults she was being subjected to by the boyfriend.
