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October 11, 2022
Igbinoba alleged that Mosadoluwa and his thugs attacked her for daring to ask him to refund N30 million collected from her siblings.
A woman, Adeyinka Igbinoba, has raised the alarm about alleged harassment and intimidation by operatives of the Nigeria Police Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT) over a case with the Amen Estate boss and Chief Sade Balogun, Harmony Garden and Estate Development Limited boss, Saheed Mosadoluwa.
SaharaReporters had earlier reported that Igbinoba accused the Nigerian police, owner of Amen Estate, Sade Gbadamosi, of covering for a land agent who allegedly broke her leg in a tussle over a N30million deal.
In the report Igbinoba alleged that Mosadoluwa and his thugs attacked her for daring to ask him to refund N30 million collected from her siblings over a parcel of land which was later found to be fraudulent.
She also accused him of fraud, forgery, attempted murder and bodily harmed injuries.
Igbinoba, had while narrating the incident to SaharaReporters, said that life had become brutish, hard and unforgiving as the hope for a new life had been dashed by alleged moves by police authorities in Lagos and operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to sweep the matter under the carpet.
According to her, Balogun also denied her right to enter her property at Amen Estate Phase 2, which she said was legitimately acquired from her; and that her life had been constantly threatened by the agent.
However, Mosadoluwa denied the allegations, adding that he was being defamed by the former Chairman of Amen Estate, Babatunde Olalere Gbadamosi who allegedly contracted Igbinoba, Biodun Abdul, Mrs. Okoror and Mrs. Olusola Abdul Beckley to say bad things about him.
Mosadoluwa in a petition to the office of the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, through an activist, Dr. Sandra Duru, requested that the IGP monitoring unit cancels and reinvestigates the case between Amen Estate boss, Chief Sade Balogun, Harmony Garden and Estate Development Limited boss, Saheed Mosadoluwa and Adeyinka Igbinoba.
The agent also alleged Babatunde conspired with the Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police, Muyiwa Adejobi, to jail him and his ex-wife, Ms Balogun, after losing out the estate.
Duru said the reasons she is asking for a fresh investigation was because she believed that the result of the previous findings by the monitoring unit was biased, unprofessional and misleading.
But Igbinoba, on Monday, lamented that after police eventually arraigned the duo of Mosadoluwa and Balogun in court, clear 10 months of investigation by IG Monitoring Unit, the defendants employed the service of Police SWAT unit to destroy the evidence in already ongoing court case.
In a video post on her Facebook page where she was lying ill in hospital bed, she said, "I'm now constantly stalked by Inspector Samuel Adakole and Inspector Monday desperately attempting to extract a new statement on a matter already in court amounting to undue harassment and psychological torment for me."
In the video seen by SaharaReporters, two police operatives with SWAT insignia on their uniform could be seen, questioning Igbinoba on a hospital bed.
In an accompanying statement to the video, she said "and when I asked why they wanted another statement, they responded that they were taking instructions from DIG Johnson Kokumo who is bent on investigating the same case that is already in court," without first withdrawing the case in court.
Narrating her ordeal in the hand of SWAT operatives, Igbinoba said "On the 4th October 2022, these SWAT officers made an attempt to arrest me within the court premises, but after much argument decided to give me an invitation letter to Abuja for questioning.
"But after then, they kept calling and now harassing me for a statement in a bid to make me a suspect in the new plot deployed by Saheed Mosadoluwa to frustrate the ongoing case.
"Yesterday, 8th October 2022, I was rushed to the hospital for an urgent medical attention. In the midst of all these came several harassment calls from these Police officers, my husband informed them that I'm actually at the hospital. They came to the hospital to retrieve my statement at all cost with a petition literally asking me to explain why I went publicly to the press - Punch Newspapers, Vanguard News, The Sun, Sahara Reporters, Daily Independent, Nigeria Guardian to say Saheed Mosadoluwa broke my leg.
"And I told them that he indeed broke my leg, and when he started using his influence coupled with that of Sade Gbadamosi to evade and pervert the cause of justice, I cried out to the public to help me call out for justice for the damage Saheed Mosadoluwa has done to my right ankle," she stated.
Igbinoba further stated, "The IG Monitoring Unit had already investigated the matter and sent their report to Ministry of Justice that Saheed Mosadoluwa should be prosecuted. And as we speak the matter is now in court... why then are these policemen from SWAT police unit harassing me to give a new statement as the accused when indeed, Saheed Mosadoluwa is already facing the law?"
She questioned, "Why will DIG Johnson Kokumo, and DCP Danladi Isa allow SWAT police division to start investigating a matter that the Nigeria Police Force investigated for ten months, and investigation reports were finally submitted for prosecution, and as a matter of fact, both parties are now in court.
"How many Nigeria Police Force do we have?? Is SWAT trying to say the investigation done by IG monitoring unit is not sufficient and therefore invalid???
"Why is the Nigeria Police Force investigating a matter already in court? Or is this another attempt by Saheed Mosadoluwa to further delay Justice? Why are they harassing me and stalking me at this stage of the case?" She lamented.
Igbinoba, however, vowed that if Mosadoluwa thinks his antics will stop her from getting justice, "I'm sorry for him".