By Bartholomew Madukwe

The Police at Tolu Police Division, Ajeromi-Ifelodun area of Lagos, have detained a woman identified as Hope Macaulay, 23, for reporting a dispute between her sibling and a neighbour at the station.

The woman had gone to the station at about 9p.m., Tuesday, to report the case which ensued while she was at work but was detained and made to sleep behind the counter till yesterday.

Although Superintendent of Police, Michael Falayi, who ordered the woman detained, failed to state reason for her detention, the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, of the station said the woman was detained for security reasons, so she could not be attacked on her way home.

However, at dawn when the woman was to return home, she was asked to pay for her bail, an indication that her detention was motivated by other factors.

Recounting her ordeal, the woman said she went out on Tuesday morning to Victoria Island and returned home at 7p.m. to see that a dispute between her brother and a neighbour had ensued in her residence and made for Tolu Police Station to seek amicable resolution of the matter.

The woman was released yesterday after the DPO asked parties in the dispute to write an undertaking never to quarrel over electricity bill.