Babatunde Olusola, an orphan and final year student of Chemical Engineering of Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State, is still in detention, 54 days after he was arrested for creating a parody Twitter account of former Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan.
His arrest was masterminded by Jonathan, who personally placed a phone call to the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, alerting him of the parody account and requesting Babatunde’s arrest.
The ex-Nigerian President also instructed his Chief Security Officer to make a formal written complaint to the Inspector-General of Police.
Babatunde was arrested through his uncle by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a dreaded controversial unit of the Nigeria Police Force.
The police operatives invaded Babatunde’s privacy and obtained information of his call log record from telecommunications service provider.
The call history linked him to his uncle, a pastor in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, who was immediately placed under house arrest by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad operatives and was ordered to invite Babatunde to his residence for onward arrest, which was done.
Afterwards, Babatunde was transferred from Ogbomoso to Ibadan and later to Abuja where he remains in detention of Nigeria Police Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (FCIID) division in Area 10, Abuja.
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