The Lagos State Police Command has arrested and detained three (3) students of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, in connection with the death of Sylvester Oromoni, a 12-years-old fellow student that was recently beaten to death.
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In a petition dated 3rd of December, 2021, the petitioner alleged that a team of military personnel involving the Police and the Army were brought in to cause mayhem in a land that belong to its client.
IGP Alkali Baba
“We act as Solicitors to Rockston Shelter Company of No 6, Ayinde Giwa Street, Surulere, Lagos State, Nigeria (hereinafter referred to as “Our Client” on whose instructions we write.
We have our instructions to make petition against the following persons;
(a) Adamakin Investment & Works Limited of No 7, Lawani Street, Jibowu, Yaba, Lagos State.
(b) Kunle Awoma (Mr.) of No 7, Lawani Street, Jibowu, Yaba, Lagos State.
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(c) Tajudeen Abioye (Mr.) of NO 33, Subuola Street, Dopemu, Agege, Lagos State.
It is our Clients’ complaint that on the 2nd of December, 2021 the persons above complained against led a group of twenty (20) Mobile Policemen and Soldiers into our Client’s site at Olopameta Community, Hopeville Estate Waterfront, Sangotedo, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State. alleging that they have a Supreme Court Judgment of 14th day of July, 2000 in Suit No: SC/48/ 1992 to execute, and proceeded to forcefully and criminally take possession pursuant to same.
1. That the said suspects did not come to our Client’s premises with a Sheriff of the Lagos State High Court or Bailiff of the Supreme Court.
2. That the said suspects proceeded to paste Notices, and signboard and inscriptions of the Walls of the Estate alleging that the Supreme Court gave judgment which entitled the suspects to take possession. Attached herewith are photographs of the same signpost and inscriptions.
3. That no such judgment exists and what was shown by the suspects is a forgery as our application to the Supreme Court for the Certified True Copy of the said Judgment reveals.
4. That upon our further search we discovered the said forged judgment relates to and concerns 19, Aqeqe Motor Road, Idi-Oro, Lagos State and not Olopameta Community, Hopeville Estate Waterfront, Sangotedo, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State.
5. That the name mentioned in SC/48/1992 is one Mr. Akingbehin Tinubu and not Late Madam Iyalode Efunroye Tinubu whose Estate the suspects now impersonate and purported to act on behalf of.
6. That the suspects have also at different times impersonated the Executors of the Estate of the Late Iyaloja Abibatu Mogaji (Mother of the former Governor of Lagos State) to carry out their nefarious actions.”
The petitioner is urging the Inspector General of police to use his good office to cause a detailed investigation of the matter with a view to bringing the suspects to Justice.
The Executive Director of CISLAC,Auwal Musa Ibrahim (Rafsanjani) in his opening remark noted in his speech that the growing of violence in Nigeria has reached an unacceptable level, referencing statistics and reports that the country has overtaken Somalia and Afghanistan in terms of kidnapping and banditry.
Rafsanjani sited Section 14 of the 1999 Constitution as amended being the framework that states that the security of the people shall be primary purpose of government and the participation by the people in the government shall be ensured in accordance with the provisions of the law.
CISLAC ED, Rafsanjani noted that documented killings and other issues of insecurity shows that the state of insecurity in the country translates to mere campaign promises by the present government led by President Muhammadu Buhari who had pledged to combat insecurity before being elected into office as President.
In lieu of the above, CISLAC has called on government in all tiers to wake up to their responsibility of providing security for its citizens.
CISLAC Executive Director, Auwal Musa Ibrahim (Rafsanjani)
Mr. Hashim while informing that the state actors have demonstrated commitment, said the frontliner in protocols have also engaged policy makers and services on the high level of vulnerability in the country.
According to Hashim, If the government put the PoC policy in place, it will become the first country in Africa to do so, and it will be something fundamental that the country write its name on the epitaph of good governance.
Journalists present at CISLAC Media Interactive session recently held at Ikeja, Lagos
Responding on the denial around the ‘leaked’ Lekki Incident EndSARS panel report, Hashim said that the denial is a system that does not coordinate or have a tradition of making amends and would certainly come up with such a denial.
“And I think they should call those proxies of government who actually denied the report to order because you can not for any reason deny a product you also put in place.
“The state actually recognised those panels, calling it illegal is actually completely out of place. It is when you recognise where the fault lies and the root causes are, that is actually is the fundamental space that you need to engage even more.
“There is nothing wrong when a mistake happens and you recognise and accept it and you are able to make amends going forward. Those are actually the kind of recognition that you need to make things happen differently.” Hashim opined.
He stated further that the pronouncement from the Minister of Information is actually compromising the outcomes of the White Paper on the panel eventually.
“I think there should be some level of coordination within various government agencies and we have seen this actually playing out since the outcome of this particular regime when there are altercations and denials on various reports and products of the system.
CISLAC manager, Mr. Salaudeen Hashim
“Basically, I think already the report will be rubbished and there is a need for us to have a new conversation as to all the recommendations and policies that are put in place.
“There are about 32 recommendations in that report. What exactly are we doing in terms of making them a reality? That should be our conversation and not the idea of denying them, mistakes have happened, we should own them up and owning them up in itself is an amend process and they can begin to soothe somethings and can help us to make some progress but if we do not do so, we continue to fire resentment and people gets angry with the state and that can also be recipe for a new conflict.”
Other defendants in the alleged fraud charge are four (4) Indian Nationals, Prem Garg, Devashish Garg, Bhagwan Simgh Rawat and Mukul Tyagi and two Britons, Marcus Wade and Andrew Fairie, said to be at large.
Also, four (4) companies: Metal Africa Steel Products Limited, Wilben Trade Limited, Fisolak Global Resources Limited and Kannu Aditya India Limited, were equally charged before the court on the fraud alleged offences.
But Princess Toyin Kolade’s lawyer, Dele Adesina (SAN) had on Friday, December 3,2021 filed a motion before the court wherein he had prayed the judge to throw out the charge preferred, against the 7th and 10th Defendants/Applicants.
The SAN in the alternative urged Justice Lifu to strike out the names of the 7th and 10th defendants from the charge for the following reasons:
* The Charge and the Proof of Evidence failed to disclose any prima facie case and/or link or connect the 7th and 10th Defendants/Applicants to the commission of the alleged offences charged.
* The Police Investigation Report issued by the Commissioner of Police, Police Special Fraud Unit (PSFU), Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department, Annex, Lagos, which formed the basis of the criminal prosecution did not implicate the 7th and 10th Defendants/Applicants in any way or form.
* The Police Investigation Report sufficiently cleared the 7th and 10th Defendants/Applicants from the commission of the alleged offences.
* The 7th Defendant/Applicant is a clean, clear and responsible personality in the Society, and it will be unfair and unjust to drag her name and that of her Company (the 10th Defendant/Applicant) doing a lawful business into a criminal trial for offences they know nothing about.
* The essence of this objection is to terminate the proceedings without this Honourable Court dissipating unnecessary energies to consider this unworthy and fruitless matter as it relates to the 7th and 10th Defendants/Applicants.
* The justice of this case demands that the names of the 7th and 10th Defendants/Applicants be struck out from the charge.
* The 7th and 10th Defendants/Applicants shall rely on the charge together with all other processes, Statements, Reports and documents filed by the prosecution in this case for the hearing of this application.
According to a 24 paragraph affidavit deposed to by Abdul-Malik Abdul-Mutalib, a lawyer in Adesina’s law firm, the defendants have been doing clearing business at the NPA for many years without any blemish or stain whatsoever.
“The Defendants/Applicants are natural and corporate citizens doing honest, lawful and responsible clearing business with sustained credibility in Nigeria.
“In this particular case, the defendants averred that they were never privy or parties to the loan application, negotiation and agreement as they were not the parties that applied for the facility granted by either the Access Bank or the FCMB, neither were they beneficiaries at any point in time of the said facilities,” Abdul-Mutalib said.
The lawyer went further to aver that the defendants were contacted by the eighth defendant, Metal Africa Steel Products to clear the goods it imported.
According to the deponent, the consignment bears the name of Metal Africa Steel Products Limited (the 8th Defendant) as the Consignee of the goods to be cleared, and by the ordinary course of business, the name of the consignee must be processed in the Prearrival Reassessment Report, PAAR .
The deponent argued: “Form C 16 titled “The Combined Certificate of Value and Origin” (CCVO), which is invoice number CF/96954 of 7th April 2016 confirms the name of the 8th Defendant as the Consignee of the Steel Billets.
“The consignment did not bear the name of Access Bank Plc or any bank at all. The usual trade practice in clearing business at the Port Authority is that if a consignment is in the name of a bank, no clearing agent or person has the right/power to clear such consignment without express order or authorization of such bank as the consignee.
“Since the documents were not in the name of the bank, there is no way the 7th and 10th Defendants could have known. Indeed, there is no way any clearing agent would have known it belonged to a bank.”
Abdul-Mutalib consequently prayed the judge to grant the prayers, saying that “the whole essence of the Administration of Criminal Justice System is to prosecute genuine suspects and or offenders and not to persecute the Innocent such as the 7th and 10th Defendants/Applicants.
“The purpose of justice would be defeated if the 7th and 10th Defendants/Applicants are compelled to stand trial in this case for offences that the 7th and 10th Defendants/Applicants knew nothing about and for which indeed there are no links connecting the 7th and the 10th Defendants/Applicants to the commission of the alleged offences.” He stated further.
When the matter came up on November 9, 2021, Justice Lifu had ordered the prosecutor, Pius Akutah, and Dele Belgore (SAN), counsel to the 3rd, 4th and 9th defendants to address the court on Section 396(2) of ACJA 2015Justice Lifu’s order was consequent upon a similar application to strike out or quash the charge brought by Belgore (SAN) but countered by the prosecutor.
Another counsel, Dada Awosika (SAN) who represented the 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 6th defendants, had also brought similar applications.
Meanwhile, Akutah told the judge that the business of the day was the arraignment of the defendants for fraud. But this was made impossible, as Adesina (SAN) notified the court about the application he had filed and served on the other parties and the court.
When the court asked about the counsel to the 4th defendant, Awosika said that the nominal complainant, Access Bank, is in the position to tell the court as it is the receiver-manager of the 4th defendant.
As a result of the request made by both Awosika and Adesina, the court asked the prosecutor what he intended to do with the defendant, Princess Akolade, who was in court.
Responding, the prosecutor asked the court to remand her in custody, and in the alternative order her counsel to undertake to produce her at every adjourned date.
Based on the submissions of counsel to the parties, Justice Lifu, while adjourning the matter till January 14,2022 for the adoption of addresses on section 396(2) of ACJA, 2015, released Princess Akolade to her counsel, Adesina (SAN) who undertook to produce her at the next adjourned date.
The father of Sylvester Oromoni Jr. has narrated how his son was beaten and fed chemicals by students of the school.
In an initial report announcing Sylvester’s death, a Twitter user, who claimed to be a cousin of the deceased, had taken to the platform to call out the school and demand justice for the death of his cousin.
He claimed that after the boy was beaten to a pulp by the cult boys who he identified before he died.
The school however came out to counter the initial report by stating that the little boy died due to injuries sustained on the football pitch.
The school denied any existence of a cult group and insisted that Sylvester Junior injured his hip while playing football and, after initially administering first aid, his family was called to pick him.
Sylvester‘s father has now countered those claims, revealing that the young lad was beaten and brutalised by students of the school.
Sylvester’s father disclosed that his son was repeatedly bullied by the accused students.
“My son suffered. The boys they mentioned were also reported to the school last term when they bullied Junior and collected all his foodstuffs; clothes. I have two daughters, one of whom earlier graduated. I had to remove the second after this incident. They asked this boy to describe the sister’s privates and this got to us.” Mr. Oromoni said.
The grieving father revealed that Junior told his mum that he didn’t play football, neither did he fall. Thus, countering the school’s claim that he got injured while playing football.
Speaking further, Mr. Oromoni said, “They kicked him, matched his waist. Other students ran off. They threatened to kill them all if they spoke a word to the school staff. They warned Junior to say he sustained injuries while playing ball. They threatened him. If you ask the roommate, they will ZAall lie. They matched his ribs and waist. All that pain for a 12-year-old,” he said.
He said Sylvester suffered liver enlargement due to congealed blood. It was also claimed that Junior was fed with a chemical-like liquid substance for refusing to join the cult.
“The parents of the boys are wealthy. They withdrew them. Some of the parents are planning to fly the children out of the country. The boys are five in number: four are in SS2 while one is in SS1,” Sylvester’s father added.
Meanwhile, The Commissioner of Police , CP Hakeem Odumosu has ordered immediate investigation into the incident even though it was not officially reported to the police.
He stated further that on the 14th of November 2021, he learnt that the wife of Ismail Wasiu had an argument with his wife, and the said Wasiu’s wife poured petrol on Tosin and set her ablaze.
Late Tosin Olugbade that was burnt to death
Upon interrogation, the suspected housewife confessed to the committed the crime, but claimed she didn’t know what came over her the day the unfortunateincidence happened.
Kehinde the suspect and her husband Ismail Wasiu
Confirming the incidence, Ogun State Police Command Image Maker, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi said preliminary investigation also revealed that the suspect and her husband initially lied to the family of the deceased that it was cooking gas that exploded and burnt the deceased. But when the lie was exposed, the husband quickly asked the wife to take to flight.
The Police team equally recovered Nineteen (19) AK47 rifles, one (1) GPMG, three (3) revolver rifles, two (2) G-3 rifles, one (1) SMG, one (1) berretta pistol, four hundred and fifty-three (453) rounds of live ammunition of different calibre, twelve (12) magazines and seventeen (17) stolen cars from the criminals during the follow-up investigations.
Notable amongst the cases is the arrest of six (6) notorious criminals involved in car theft in different parts of the country particularly Nasarawa, Port-Harcourt, FCT, Kebbi and Zamfara. These suspects smuggle the stolen cars through our international borders and deliver same to a major criminal receiver called Alhaji Garuba (still at large) in Niger Republic.
Investigations revealed that the modus operandi of the suspects include snatching the cars at gun point and sometimes removing the cars from where parked especially crowded car parks like the Cinema, Church and Mosque.These cars are sold in neighbouring countries at give-away prices and sometimes delivered to Alhaji Garuba in exchange for illicit weapons.
The INTERPOL unit of the Nigeria Police is already working with their counterparts in Niger Republic to arrest the fleeing suspects in order to bring them to book.
Secondly, is the arrest of one 27yrs-old Dayyabu Mohammed of Soba LGA of Kaduna State for illegal possession of five (5) AK47 rifles and 250 rounds of AK47 ammunition.
The suspect was arrested during a crackdown on bandits at Saminaka Forest in kaduna State by operatives of STS. Investigation shows that Dayyabu Mohammed is an arms supplier to two (2) identified and wanted bandits in the North West and North Central parts of the country. The two bandit kingpins are Yellow and Budderi. Dayyabu Mohammed was intercepted while ferrying the weapons from Jos, Plateau State in a Golf-3 saloon car to the Bandit in their hideouts located in a forest at Birnin-Gwari, Kaduna State.
Investigations by the Police team revealed that the Golf-3 saloon car was given to Dayyabu as his operational vehicle by one of the wanted bandits, with a promise that the full ownership of the vehicle will revert to him on completion of five successful arms delivery missions.
The arrest of the perpetrators of a recent deadly attack on travellers in the Tafa axis of the Kaduna – Abuja highway where two (2) women and their husbands were abducted by the criminals into the forest. The operatives of the Special Tactical Squad deployed to that area were quickly mobilized and went after the suspects to rescue the victims. The Police operatives eventually identified the hideout of the criminals, launched a rescue mission and successfully rescued the hostages, including the women, unhurt.
The operatives equally apprehended a gang of six; Mohammed lawali, Suleiman Ibrahim, Mohammed Rebo, Bashir Audu, Monsoru Abubakar and Abubakar Hamidu, in connection with the attack on a Mosque in Mazakuka area in Mashegu LGA in Niger State where eighteen (18) people were reportedly killed and more than thirty (30) abducted. Investigations by the Police team revealed that the gang leader, Mohammed lawali and some of the gang members are escapees from the Lokoja correctional centre. Bashir Audu was arrested for his criminal role of supplying hard drugs to the gang. Two (2) AK47 rifles, three (3) fully-loaded magazines and various parcels of hard drugs were recovered from them.
The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc (+), NPM, fdc while commending the team for the successful operations, assures the nation that the Force would continue to close-up on these criminal elements who pose threats to our national security. The IGP calls on members of the public who are victims of car theft to visit the STS office at Guzape, Abuja with proof of ownership to claim the vehicles bearing in mind that the colour, interior and vehicle number plate might have been tampered with.
All the suspects will be arraigned in court on completion of investigations.
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