The Ogun State Police Command has denied arresting Olanipekun Oladayo Irenimofe, a Moshood Abiola Polytechnic student, for purchasing a pregnancy test kit and contraception.
Oladayo's sister took to social media after she was "arrested" to raise awareness.
My sister, a student of Mapoly just got arrested for going to buy postpill and pregnancy strip. She's at a police post in Abeokuta."she had tweeted.
She later revealed in a series of tweets that her sister had been released, but that police had gone looking for her again. Olukoya later tweeted that the pharmacist who sold the products to her sister had been arrested.
Please help oooo, she just told me they’ve gone to arrest the pharmacist that sold them to her."
DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the state police command PRO, said the officers were only doing their job by interrogating her about whether she had a doctor's prescription or not.
The command has released her since morning. She was questioned if she has a doctor's prescription."he said