By RAJI ADEBAYO, Ibadan

A business mogul and traditional leader, HRH Olatunde Oginni, has instituted a lawsuit against the Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command, Mrs Ngozi Onadeko, ACP Sunday Oke, the Area Commander Iyaganku, DSP Yussuf Olalekan Are and nine others seeking 100 million damages against all the respondents for his illegal arrest and detention between 28th and 29th May 2021.

The suit was filed by Oladipo Olasope SAN Law firm on behalf of the Monarch at the High Court of Justice, Oyo State of Nigeria in the Ibadan judicial division Holden at Ibadan.

The respondents in the case according to the charge sheet breached the fundamental human right of the applicant as enshrined in the 1999 constitution as amended.

“That the arrest and detention and constant invitation of the applicant by the respondents over a purely civil matter of Landlord/tenant relationship is a breach of the constitutional right of the applicant.”

It will be recalled that the monarch had earlier through a petition written by his Counsel, Oladipo Olasope (SAN) & Co alleged and accused the commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Mrs Ngozi Onadeko of taking a side in a tenancy case between HRH Oginni and some aggrieved tenants after “suspiciously” taking bribe.

He seemed not satisfied after the petition he wrote to the office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Police Complaints Commission.

In the petition made available to journalists, Oginni challenged what he described as high handedness of men of Oyo State Police Command.

“Our client was only released after DSP Are had collected the sum of fifty thousand naira (N50,000) from our client based on the instruction of ACP Oke (the Area Commander). Despite the resolutions of the disagreement between the two parties, DSP Are and ACP Oke have not ceased from threatening our client with arrest and further detention,” the petition reads in part.

The monarch also added that the “Police from Iyaganku Police division denied me of fair hearing after unlawfully arresting my aides who are watching over my property (HRH Olatunde Oginni retail market at Dugbe, Ibadan) where some hoodlums that were protesting over tenancy issue threatened to destroy the edifice after collecting gratification.

They were detained for nine days at the Iyaganku Area command.

“I can boldly say that CP Onadeko is not competent to secure a volatile State, such as Oyo as its evident in many security breaches we are experiencing here under her watch.” (Daily Independent)

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