Ogun lawyer says she lost her pregnancy due to police harassment

<p>The lawyer stated that the officers scared away people with guns as they harassed her over a land dispute.</p>, <span>She was told at a hospital that she had a miscarriage Punch</span>, <h2>Yemisi Adebayo, an Ogun-based lawyer, has claimed that she lost her pregnancy after she was allegedly molested by policemen from the state police headquarters at Eleweran, Abeokuta, the state capital.</h2>, <p>In an interview in which she detailed her ordeal in the hands of the policemen, Adebayo recalled that she was picked up by three officers on Monday, July 31, 2023, at her office in Oju Ore, the Ota area of Ogun State. The policemen told her she must follow them to Onipanu Police Station along Obasanjo road in the state.</p>, <p>According to the lawyer, the policemen came with a man identified as Niyi, whom she had earlier followed to the police station when he was invited by the police over a land matter.</p>, <p>Adebayo stated that trouble began when she accompanied Niyi and four other people to the police station because they were invited over a land matter they had nothing to do with.</p>, <p>She said the five people were released to her and that she was to be bringing them upon request by the police.</p>, <p>"They said those five people were occupying a piece of land at Ota. When they were invited, the said complainant did not even know them. The matter is already at the court, they only occupied the vacant place as apprentices that they are, and the resolution was that they should vacate the place with which they complied.</p>, <p>"But on Saturday, an officer called me saying that he wanted to see those five persons again at Onipanu Police Station. I said I would inform them. I said they could also call them since they had their numbers," she stated.</p>, <p>Speaking further, Adebayo said she had a court case at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Monday and had already informed the five people to meet the police on that day.</p>, <p>"They (the policemen) came to my office on Monday and asked me to accompany