A counsel to alleged Badoo
kingpin, Abayomi Alaka, on Friday said that the wanted suspect had submitted
petitions against the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, Mr.Edgal
Imohimi.
According to the lawyer,
Babatunde Ojehomon, the petition was addressed to the Inspector General of
Police, Ibrahim Idris, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the National Assembly and
others.
Ojehomon said at his chambers in
Ibadan, Oyo State that the sealing of his client’s property by the Lagos State
Government and police’s declaration of Alaka as a wanted individual were
actions that trampled on his (Alaka’s) rights.
According to him, Alaka had
already instituted a case against the IG and Imohimi at the Federal High Court,
Lagos State Division, adding that the Lagos CP was after Alaka because he had
“an axe to grind with him.”
He said, “We affirm that
originating processes in the matter have been served on the respondents since
August 2017 and this case had come up for hearing once before a vacation judge
and twice before Justice Hassan of the Federal High Court, Lagos Division.
“The respondents were not only
absent on those occasions but have failed, neglected or refused to file any
processes in response to our client’s case against them.
“It is shocking how the
respondents have again come to the public declaring our client, who is an
applicant before a superior court of record, wanted over the allegation of
Badoo cult killings.
“Even though we are putting our
papers together to seek a legal remedy against the unlawful sealing of our
client’s property, we have resolved to exhaust all available administrative
remedies in the light of the recent events that have concretised our suspicion
that Imohimi has a personal axe to grind with our client.”
Alaka’s counsel said that one of
the requests in the petitions was to establish an independent investigating
team, which would be free from the control and supervision of Imohimi.
According to him, such a team
should look into the allegations levelled against his client. He added that
there were several issues attached to the case and that would be exposed once
an independent body took control.
It would be recalled that the
Lagos State Police Command had declared Alaka wanted “in connection with series
of well-orchestrated killings and nefarious activities of the Badoo cult group”
two weeks ago.
While he was declared wanted, an
event centre and filling station owned by him were shut down by the state
government.
Alaka, 51, was alleged to be a
prime suspect in killings believed to have been perpetrated by the dreaded
Badoo cult in Ikorodu area of Lagos.
The cult was known for its
peculiar way of killing by smashing the heads of its victims – whether child,
woman or man – with mortars, pestles or large stones.
Such killings gripped the Ikorodu
area for many months in 2017 fuelling rumours that the killers sold
handkerchiefs used to clean the blood of victims to ritualists.
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