Ejigbo women: Lagos Assembly places N1.25m reward on perpetrators

Lagos — Lagos state House of Assembly,
yesterday, placed a bounty of N1.25 million to
unravel the perpetrators of the brutalisation of two
women in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area,
LCDA, last year.
Chairman of the five-man ad hoc committee
investigating the matter, Mr. Ajibayo Adeyeye
disclosed this at a stakeholders’ meeting on the
issue, at the Lateef Jakande Auditorium, Alausa
Secretariat, Ikeja.
According to Adeyeye: “Anybody that gives
information that leads to the arrest of the
perpetrators of the heinous act shall be given N1
million. And I will add the sum of 250,000 from my
private account to increase the sum to
N1.25million.”
During the deliberation, the video clip of the incident
which ran for about eight minutes was played,
showing how the two women were tortured by the
perpetrators. The video clip moved the participants
at the meeting to tears.
The President of Women Arise Initiative, Dr. Joe
Odumakin, who had previously led a protest to the
House on the matter, explained that she saw the
video for the first time on December 7, 2013.
Odumakin said that the greatest gift anyone could
give the women was to get justice for them.