However, when the owner of the quarry met the tricycle riders where they were loading the bags of cement and enquired who sent them, the man who hired them reportedly took to his heels. We were with the money demanded for the tricycles, but the DPO insisted that we should come back on Saturday. “When we went to the station on Saturday, we didn’t meet the DPO, but we saw the DCO. We went to his office and he brought out some statements and read them to the riders and asked them to sign. The statement by the state Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, accused them of jumping the bail granted them by the DPO.

Source: Punch June 28, 2021 01:52 UTC