A woman, Mrs Funmi Afolabi, has appealed to the Inspector General of Police, Mr Usman Baba, to help her find the whereabouts of her two children who had been in the custody of the police in Ondo State since when she was remanded in Olokuta Correctional Centre over a murder case in Akure.

It was gathered that the children, Segun Afolabi and Blessing Afolabi, were aged seven and one and a half years when Afolabi and her husband were arrested by the police on November 13, 2010, and charged to court for alleged murder.

After the arrest, the couple and six others in the case were said to have been remanded in prison custody, Olokuta Akure since 2010.

It was also learnt that a team of policemen from Abuja told the couple to release the two children, promising to hand them over to a charity house for proper care pending the determination of their case.

Counsel to the couple, Mr Wale Omotoso (SAN), while speaking on the matter in Akure, said several efforts by him and some individuals to see that the children were released to his client, based on the promises made by the police authority in Abuja, have proved abortive.

Omotoso said, “Honestly, I don’t know what is wrong but I know, something is actually wrong somewhere. All efforts made to rejoin the two children with their mother out of the perceived police authority Charity Home could not yield any positive results.

‘This case is like beating a child and telling him or her not to cry. We will continue till the water that comes out from our eyes will turn to flood in the police compound unless the Nigeria Police Authority do the needful by giving Caesar what belongs to Caesar (that is, giving back the traumatised woman her children),” he added.. (The PUNCH)

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