A monarch in Osun State, Dr. Olapade
Agoro, yesterday dragged the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fimihan Adeoye,
before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, over the alleged
embarrassment caused him by the police.
Agoro, who is also the patriarch
of Aladura Church and the Owa Tapa of Ijesha, claimed that the CP, in a press
interview he granted in September, maligned his person, good reputation and
business interests.
The commissioner of police had
been quoted in a newspaper report to have accused Agoro of concocting lies
against the Osun State Police Command so as to escape being taken to court for
some alleged criminal and traffic offences.
According to the report, Agoro
had earlier accused some policemen from the Osun State Police Command of
handcuffing a bus passenger to a police patrol van in Itapa and extorting money
from him following the escape of the driver of the bus from a police
checkpoint.
In his suit, Agoro said the CP
maligned him and, therefore, urged the court to award N1m in damages in his
favour against the police boss.
Agoro, who sued the Osun State
CP, Adeoye, along with the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, urged
the court to restrain the police from “further harassing, embarrassing and
extorting bribe from him.”
He is also urging the court to
make an order compelling the defendants to publish an apology to the plaintiff
and which words of apology must first be seen and approved by the honourable
court before publication on the front pages of three national
In his statement of claim, Agoro
claimed that rather than commending him for calling for the probe of “the
criminals in police uniform” who allegedly handcuffed a passenger to their
Hilux van, the CP “woefully derailed by telling unfounded lies against my good
name and global respect in Nigeria and the whole world in the story published
as, “Handcuffed passenger: Police accuse monarch of mischief.”
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