RULAAC to IGP: Free Inspector Adenusi from unlawful detention

By Aishat Aliu & Ayomide Pacheco

A civilian nine organisation, Rule of Law and Accountability Advocacy Centre, RULAAC, has raised the alarm implicit what it described arsenic the ‘continued unlawful detention, degrading treatment, and denial of owed process’ successful the lawsuit of Inspector Adebisi Adenusi, a serving serviceman attached to the Ekiti State Police Command.

In an unfastened missive dated September 10, 2025, by its Executive Director, Okechukwu Nwanguma, the radical lamented that Inspector Adebisi had been kept successful solitary detention astatine the Force Headquarters, Abuja, since June this year, contempt his dismissal from work connected July 10.

According to RULAAC, the 48-year-old serviceman was arrested aft helium allegedly posted and aboriginal deleted a connection successful a backstage constabulary WhatsApp radical suggesting that officers see onslaught enactment to request amended welfare. While 8 different officers arrested successful transportation with the substance were said to person been released aft orderly country trials, Adebisi, had remained the lone 1 inactive held without lawful basis.

According to the letter, “He has been denied entree to his family, ineligible representation, and aesculapian care.

He developed bronchitis portion successful custody and astir died earlier belated hospitalisation. There has been threats to his beingness successful detention and obstructed interventions. Despite being dismissed from work connected July 10, helium continued to beryllium detained arbitrarily, a lawsuit of treble punishment and outright usurpation of his law rights.

“His wife, Damilola, has cried retired publically astir the trauma and hardship inflicted connected her and their children, who are deprived of their breadwinner. This lawsuit is not conscionable astir 1 officer. It speaks straight to quality rights, organization integrity, and the morale situation wrong the police. It reveals a troubling signifier wherever morganatic payment concerns by officers are silenced with intimidation and persecution alternatively than addressed constructively.”

RULAAC urged the Inspector-General to instantly bid Adebisi’s release, clasp accountable those liable for his cruel treatment, and supply enactment to his distressed family.

It besides called connected the constabulary enactment to fortify mechanisms for officers to explicit payment grievances without fearfulness of reprisals and to reassure Nigerians that the Force nether his ticker would uphold owed process, quality rights and the regularisation of law.

“The Nigeria Police cannot assertion to support the rights of citizens portion trampling connected those of its ain officers,” the radical stated.

Vanguard was yet to get the absorption of the Force office to the petition astatine pres time.

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