One Mr Urakat Audullahi, who also uses the name - Saheed Mosadoluwa, aka Ibile in Lagos State engaged over 30 police orderlies to perpetrate criminalities in the state including attempted murder.
Some public interest lawyers under the aegis of Lawyers for Reform Group (LRG) have called on the Acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kayode Egbetokun to order a thorough investigation into alleged use of police orderlies for land-grabbing, brutality among others in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria.
LRG which made the call during a press conference on Tuesday in Abuja alleged that one Mr Urakat Audullahi, who also uses the name - Saheed Mosadoluwa, aka Ibile in Lagos State engaged over 30 police orderlies to perpetrate criminalities in the state including attempted murder.
The Executive Project Director of the group, Oladotun Hassan, who read the text of the address, alleged that the orderlies were used by the Chairman of Harmony Garden and Estate Development Limited and Ibile Auctioneers and Recovery Limited, Saheed Mosadoluwa, popularly known as Ibile.
He noted that the group of lawyers was committed to ensuring the protection of fundamental rights and equitable justice, Hassan disclosed that the body was ready to rescue Mr Samusideen Oluwo,
an alleged victim of an attempted murder case, whom he regretted was arrested alongside his co-workers.
He said it was on behalf and instruction of Oluwo that LRG called on the Inspector General of Police to match his word with immediate actions for onward sanitisation of the Nigeria Police Force.
He said, ''Regrettably, according to reliable sources and seen to the blind these dreaded gangs are working closely with police officers at various highest echelons in the Nigeria Police Force to wreak havoc unimpeded, while they ridiculously transfer case files, convert petitioners to accused, then illicitly arrest and charge indiscriminately, consequently subverting justice.
''Precipitating our urgent request for the immediate discontinuance of prosecution of Mr Samusideen Oluwo and other victims who were grievously and brutally attacked, and deliberately beaten to stupor with 16mm iron rods and thrown naked on a live video. They consequently, posted it on all social media intentionally, aimed at criminally defaming and to cause the victims monumental embarrassments and ridicules before the right thinking members of the society."
The group, however, appealed to Egbetokun to direct the CP Provost Marshal to immediately commence an action to sanction all erring police officers found culpable in the heinous criminal acts.
While appealing to the IGP for recall and harmonisation of all pending related cases in all police formations under his watch and good office, he said it would engender "proper unbiased investigation, harmonisation, consolidation and prosecution at a court of competent jurisdiction accordingly.
He said, ''We are aghast and disturbed to see the unending absurdity, unprofessional conducts, biased investigation, and gross insubordination to disobey IGP's earlier ordered instructions on the same matters at various points in time, wherein an unfortunate reckless investigation and prosecution of the aforementioned cases.
''This premeditated criminal action was compounded by the several professional gross insubordination and misconducts perpetrated by the aforementioned police officers led by one Funmi Egunaje and others attached to FCID Abuja in active connivance of cultists and thugs working day and night with Ibile, wherein they have perfected the acts of frustrating anyone that has cases with the principal suspect Ibile.''
The lawyers recalled SaharaReporters' report on how the same Ibile allegedly connived with one Folashade Balogun, formerly Gbadamosi, Managing Director, Amen Estate, and Kola Opeodu in a reported attempted murder case by the IGP Monitoring Unit, wherein Adeyinka Igbenoba narrowly escaped death but sustained a life-threatening injury on her right ankles, leading to LRG's demands on the IGP to reinvestigate and prosecute all indicted culprits accordingly.