Alaka Fires Lagos CP Edgal, Denies Involvement in Badoo Crime
By Tricia Chinyere, LAGOS/ Undoubtedly, those who lost their friends and relatives to the Badoo ritual killers in Ikorodu communities will never forget the horrible tales in a jiffy. The killers sent over seven different families to the world beyond. When the menace got to the peak and government and security agencies collaborate to end the menace, arrests were made and one of the key suspected badoo cultist is Alaka Abayomi. He was arrested and later released by the Police for allegedly operating a suspected ritual shrine at Agbowa Area of Ikorodu .
Alaka, a successful business man with interests in oil and gas however fires the Police for making statements that could incite the public against him, stressing that the police finds nothing incriminating against him. Alaka reiterated that he is not the owner of the Shrine that the Police authority is trying hard to nail him on.
The suspect, Alaka, was arrested in a sting operation by the Lagos State Police Command in July, but was later released.
In a meeting with traditional rulers at the Ikorodu town Hall on September 7th, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Imohimo Edgal had vowed that he would prosecute the suspect, claiming that some ‘stupid people’ had been offering him bribe to kill the case.
“I decided to open its existence to the world so that nobody would be able to kill the case. I would have gone there quietly if I wanted to cover it. A lot of entreaties have been made and some stupid people have even attempted to offer me money,” Edgal had said at the meeting.
“A situation where strangers would come and set up shrines for the purpose of rituals and fraudulent activities are over.
“It took a lot of hardwork to penetrate Agbowa shrine. It was a spiritual problem. At the moment, forensic experts are carrying out investigations into the criminal aspects of the shrine.
“I decided to open its existence to the world so that nobody would be able to kill the case. I would have gone there quietly if I wanted to cover it. A lot of entreaties have been made and some stupid people have attempted to offer me money.
“They do not know my background, if they did, they won’t do that. I will send that man to jail.”
The new Police Boss in Lagos said there would be more police presence in Ikorodu, adding that most of the police posts there would be converted to stations
Contrary to CP Edgal’s claim, Aka denies the allegation. In a statement by Alaka’s lawyer, Tunde Ojehomom , the legal practitioner describes the accusation against Alaka as blatant lies intended to paint his him in bad light.
“By this press release we are not attempting to join issues with the acting Commissioner of Police in Lagos State but rather enjoin him to thread with caution as his continuous public display of emotions on matter he claimed is still under investigation has continued to aggravate the insecurity of our client and his family.”
“We wish to state in an unequivocal term that our client is neither a ritualist, a murderer, a member of Badoo nor has any connection whatsoever with the group.”
The lawyer stated that Mr Abayomi Alaka felt embarrassed and dehumanized by the false allegation and activities of the men of the Nigeria Police Force and TV Continental television, and has therefore approached the court in suit No: FHC/L/CS/1241/17 against the I.G and others to seek for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights.
He said the originating processes in the aforementioned suit have been served on the Commissioner of Police and in fact, the case which has already been assigned to a judge of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos came up for hearing on the 6th of September, 2017.
Ojehomon insisted that if the Commissioner of Police has facts that Mr Abayomi Alaka has committed any offence, he should respond to the summons served on him and desist from making prejudicial and unsubstantiated statements in the public against their client.
He advised the public to be calm but at alert to the calculated display by the Commissioner of Police and his men to incite the public against his client.
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