A woman, Jennifer Madueke, has been detained by the Lagos State Police Command over a missing service pistol belonging to the Denton Divisional Police Officer, CSP Adegoke Akinlade.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the 29-year-old woman, after spending three days in a detention facility at the Denton Police Station, Ebute Meta, Lagos, where she was allegedly tortured to confess to the crime, was transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba.

Our correspondent learnt that Madueke and Akinlade once dated and separated after the Police officer was transferred out of Lagos over seven years ago.

A credible source said that after the officer was posted back to Lagos, the lovers did not immediately return to the relationship, having lost each other’s contacts.

The source said that, sometime in 2021, however, they met again and exchanged phone numbers.

“That was when the DPO, who was married, proposed that they continue with the relationship.

“On Friday, August 27, he invited the lady to his office and slept with her till Saturday morning. He released her to go around 5am and even saw her off to the bus stop.

They did not see each other again until last Saturday, September 4, when he invited the girl and told her they should go out.

“However, when she went to see him, he detained her and accused her of stealing his service pistol. He kept her in his cell till Monday, September 6. While the girl was in the cell, he asked his boys to torture her to make confessional statements.

“On that Monday, he took her to a herbalist on Jebba Street, Ebute Meta, Lagos, around 8am. The herbalist told him that it was the girl that took the pistol, but she denied the allegation. It was from there he took her to the SCIID, Yaba, where she has been detained till now,” the source added.

PUNCH Metro learnt that on Tuesday, September 7, the police at the SCIID took the suspect to her house and ransacked the apartment with the hope of recovering the missing pistol. The effort, however, failed, as nothing was seen.

Another source claimed that the DPO was queried by the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu.

“But, why is the CP leaving him in that position when he should have been removed by now? Is that not injustice?” the source queried.