Following last weekend’s raid of the Ojodu home of a self-acclaimed prophet, Emmanuel Adeyemi, where the police rescued 28 people, including 13 children and 15 adults who were chained, ThisDay gathered today that detectives have also discovered shallow graves in the house and in the swamp behind the house.
This is just as it was gathered that
despite claims by the suspect that all those chained were mad, the
police were able to ascertain that one was a cancer patient, who had
developed sores from being chained up.
While 27 others had been taken to the
Lagos State Government rehabilitation centre, one was however taken to
the hospital as she was very weak and had terrible sores from the
chains.
The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State
Police Command, CP Fatai Owoseni, acting on a tip-off, deployed
operatives at the Area G Command Headquarters, to the house located at
Oyinbo Unity Estate, Olamidun Close, Yakoyo, Oke-Ira.
Although the initial intelligence report
was that a teenager, Adeyemi’s stepson, 17-year-old Toba Adedoyin, was
chained, subsequent intelligence by the police revealed that 27 others
were also locked up.
Confirming the incident, Owoseni said
they had initially invited the suspect to the station based on a
tip-off, and he claimed his chained his stepson to cure him of the
spirit of stealing.
He said,
“When we got information that a teenager
was locked up in a house, the Area Commander had invited the suspect,
who claimed that his son was known for stealing and so he locked him up
in chains to cure him of stealing.

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