Nollywood actress Iyabo Ojo and
popular comedienne, Adekola Adekanya, aka Princess, have protested against the
alleged plan to release actor Olanrewaju Omiyinka aka Baba Ijesha from police
custody.
The celebrities held the protest
at Panti Police Station on Thursday after news surfaced that Baba Ijesha may be
released.
A senior officer at the Lagos
State Police Command has released that a directive had been given for the
release of Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, aka Baba Ijesha, from custody.
The source said due to the
ongoing strike by members of the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria, courts had
ceased sitting and the suspect could not be detained indefinitely without
trial.
The source, however, said the
investigation into the recent allegation against Omiyinka revealed that he did
not defile the victim, adding that when she was questioned, the victim
confirmed the same.
“We are here at Panti, and he
still here. They are not bailing Baba Ijesha. We are here and we have sorted it
out,” the actress said in a video of the protest.
In the video, Princess was also
seen crying. However, her colleagues and family members persuaded her to stop
crying.
“Nigerians are watching,” one of
the protesters assured the actress.
The Lagos State Police Command
arrested Baba Ijesha last Wednesday over the alleged defilement of a minor.
“The case of defilement was
reported on 19th April, 2021 by one Princess Adekola Adekanya ‘female’ at Sabo
Police Station and transferred to the Gender Unit of the State CID, Panti, Yaba
Lagos for proper investigation
“Based on preliminary findings,
the suspect started sexually assaulting the victim, 14 years, since she was
seven years old. The suspect confessed to the crime and was also captured by a
CCTV camera in the house of the complainant,” the police had said in a
statement.
During a live broadcast on
Instagram on Wednesday, Princess said people, who were compassionate about her
childlessness, entrusted the victim and five other children to her care, adding
that after Omiyinka allegedly defiled the minor, she started behaving strangely.
She said, “The child started
failing in school, I paid for private lessons and when I told my family, they
told me we should pray, maybe it is spiritual. But I kept on saying that
something is wrong, this child has changed.
“My friend talked to the child
again to know what was going on, she told us what happened, I was shocked… I
called the CCTV company to set a camera, we asked everybody to go out and stay
in a neighbour’s house, she (the victim) was afraid, we said she should calm
down…
“He came in and saw that there
was nobody at home and I told him I want to see dstv people off and I will stay
long…I dropped my phone, went out and locked the door. Two seconds later, he
stood up, begin to check my whole house to be sure that none of the children
were inside sleeping.
“I can’t begin to relay the
things that he did, I was shaking because we were monitoring it on the phone.
Police came immediately and picked him up, I asked him, Lanre, what is my
offense? You know I didn’t give birth and the children were in my care so I
won’t be thinking and you did something like this to me? He said it is the
devil…”
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