The Commissioner of Police in
Lagos State, Imohimi Edgal has explained the reasons why the police transferred
the case file of Hip Hop Star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, to
outstate Criminal Investigation Department (CID, Yaba in Lagos.
Speaking on Channels Television
Breakfast Show, Sunrise, Imohimi said the actions of Davido called for
suspicion.
“I asked Davido that, ‘When you
left that bar, did you have anything again to do with the deceased?’ What he
said was that he was only informed by mutual friends in some other bar that the
deceased had died and I took his word for it.
“I called for further
investigations, pulled the CCTV cameras from the General Hospital, only to
discover that it was Davido’s escort Hilux van, his driver, his friends that
brought Tagbo Umeike (the deceased) dead and dumped in the hospital then fled
the scene.”
Imohimi said the response by Davido
raises suspicion, and that was what was being investigated by the police.
“That raises curiosity and of
course that’s what we are investigating, and that was why I ordered that the
matter be moved to outstate CID at Yaba for proper investigation and of course,
we will duplicate the case file and forward to DPP, Ministry of Justice for
legal advise, ” he said.
He said he believed Davido’s
initial statement that he was only informed by mutual friends about Tagbo’s
death and even told the actress, Caroline Danjuma to be careful about what she
posts on social media because the integrity of someone is involved.
“When Actress Caroline Danjuma
came up on Instagram that Tagbo Umeike was in the company of the Pop-star,
Davido and friends when he died and she suspects foul play, I was forced to
call all parties involved to my conference room as a kind of pre-investigation
fact-finding and Davido was there with his family and friends, the victim’s
family and friends plus Caroline Danjuma.
“I asked questions. I remember
even telling Caroline Danjuma that ‘Look you don’t go on your Instagram page
without verifying facts because a person’s reputation is concerned.”
The acting commissioner of Police
in Lagos, however, said that the police is not speculating and the
investigation into the case is based on facts.
“It is an open sincere process
here. We are not speculating, we are basing our reports on facts,” he said.
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