N200,000 bribery allegation rocks Lagos police juvenile centre

An N200,000 bribery scandal has rocked the Juvenile Welfare Centre of the Police in Mushin, as a middle-aged woman, Joy Maduabuchi has accused police operatives at the centre of requesting the said sum to travel to Imo State to rescue her missing son.

Daily Times gathered that the boy, simply identified as Chibuike, had gone missing in 2016, while he was returning from school.

Although there are speculations he was abducted and later dumped by his abductors recently, the boy who is now about nine-year-old was found by the police.

Iheanacho said she became aware that her missing son had been found through a Facebook post.

The woman said she rushed to the Centre and was asked to present the child’s birth certificate, indigenization, and antenatal care, which she presented.

She claimed it was after presenting the said documents that police operatives informed her that her son had been released to another woman in far away Imo State.

“They then told me that to go and rescue the child from the woman he was handed over to, they need N200,000 as mobilization, which I do not have.

“I am calling on Nigerians to help me. I don’t know what to do at this point,” she had said in a video that has since gone viral.

Reacting to the allegation, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi said the allegation brought against JWC was false and baseless.

Adejobi revealed that three women are laying claim to the child.

He said: “The command has been briefed on this case. The allegation of the woman in this video is false and unfounded as the command is having three mothers claiming a boy. The boy allegedly got missing sometime back but was found at Ojo Division, Lagos.

” He was later taken to the JWC office at Alakara for investigation. A woman came to claim him and sent him to another woman in Imo State.

This woman in the video appeared last Friday to claim the same boy and she was told that he has been seen and published on Facebook. So she has not even set her eyes on the boy before she started claiming the boy and alleging the police baselessly.

“The case is a complex and sensitive one, so the command will be professional about it and make sure the facts emerge. We are on it and we will do the needful as urgent as possible. We are working with the Imo State Police Command to retrieve the boy and commence further police actions.”