The Lagos State Police has arrested a young Ghanaian man who has been missing for 3 months.
Etroo Mensah, a 21-year-old Ghanaian, who was declared missing after the police raided the Ikota, Ajah area of Lagos three months ago, has been found.
Etroo who came back home at 2pm last Wednesday,had been arraigned in court by the police, and was remanded at the Ikoyi Prison a week after the raid.
Speaking with PUNCH Metro on Saturday, the Ghanaian said he and 35 persons were arrested and taken to the Ajah Police Division after the raid.
He added that while others were bailed by their family members, he and three others were tried in a court the following Monday and remanded at the Ikoyi Prison.
“They arrested about 40 persons from the street. They had a big bus. They took all of us to the Ajah division and lined us at the station. Four women were among us. They took some of us to the Elemoro Police Station. We were in Elemoro for four days.
“That was where I called my brother. While we spoke, I told him we were arrested by policemen from the Ajah station, I was about telling him I had been taken to Elemoro when a police woman, Juliana Adeniyi, snatched the mobile phone from me.
“By the following Tuesday, family members had come to bail most of us. It remained about six of us inside the cell. I could not reach my family because the police woman did not return my mobile phone. I did not have their contacts off hand.
“On that day, we were arraigned at the Tinubu Magistrates’ Court and four of us were taken to Ikoyi Prison from there.
“That was where I had been for three months. The three others were Olaosebikan Temitope, Stephen Adjei, and one Rasak. I am the only Ghanaian. The three others also said they were innocent on the matter”, Etroo told journalists.
Eroo added that the four of them kept appearing in court with no complainant and prosecutor till the magistrate struck out the case on Tuesday, June 16.
Our correspondent gathered that Etroo was taken to a hospital for treatment from Wednesday till Friday after developing malaria.
The elder brother, Napoleon, told News men that the family was happy for the publication, adding that they were glad to have Etroo back home.