There was a mild drama at the Yaba Magistrate Court in Lagos on Monday as policemen attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department filed an application seeking to remand #EndSARS protester , Eromosele Adene , for an extra 30 days.

The policemen had last week arrested Eromosele in Ikeja and taken him to the police command headquarters and then transferred him to the Area F Command before detaining him at the SCID , Panti. He was last Monday flown to Abuja and detained for seven days before being brought back to Lagos on Sunday.

However, rather than charge him , the policemen secretly approached a Magistrate , O . A Salau , without the consent of his lawyer and applied for a remand order to detain him for an extra 30 days .
Eromosele’ s lawyer , Mr .
Tunde Jinadu, who was at the SCID , was told by policemen that his client was no longer in custody.
However, Jinadu immediately received word from concerned persons about what the police were up to .

Speaking with The PUNCH , he said , “ We were not served . We were not called that he was being brought to SCID . An ACP told me they didn ’ t know where he was .
This sharp practice of the police needs to stop. They just wanted to shut us out. That was how they flew him to Abuja last week without my knowledge.

“ Luckily, some good people informed me that he ( Eromosele ) had been taken to a magistrate court . Thank God I have a car. I was able to quickly arrive at the court . ”

On arrival at the court , the policemen were said to have been shocked and wondered how the lawyer was able to get information on what was happening .

The lawyer added , “ The police asked the magistrate for an order to remand him for 30 days despite the fact that he had already spent 12 days in their custody.

“ We tendered a medical report from Eko Hospital as regards the liver complication and immune system and we made an oral application for bail . And we notified the magistrate that he ( Eromosele ) had been moved from one detention facility to the other and one state to the other. ”

The magistrate subsequently fixed the ruling for Tuesday.