FALSE IMPRISONMENT OF POLICE OFFICERS BY SDP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, CIVIL SOCIETY GROUP THREATENS TO SHUT DOWN ABUJA
DEMANDS THE ARREST AND PROSECUTION OF MR. ADEBAYO ADEWOLE.
A Coalition of Civil Society groups and Nigerian Patriots under the auspices of Dream Nigeria Movement and Youth Advocates For Peace Justice and Empowerment Network (YAPJEN) are calling on the Inspector General of the Nigeria Police to arrest and prosecute Mr. Adebayo Adewole, The SDP Presidential Candidate for the unlawful and false imprisonment of police officers in his house in Abuja.
On the 1st of November 2022, The DPO of Dawaki Police Station gave a document (bench warrant) from the Legal section of the FCT Police Command to
Assistant Superintendent of Police (Asp ) Joseph Otanwa to effect the arrest of Mr Adebayo Adedayo, The SDP Presidential Candidate.
On receiving the bench warrant issued by a court of competent Jurisdiction, ASP Joseph Otanwa mobilised some officers to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport where Mr. debayo Adewole had arrived.
On approaching him, the police officers identified themselves and informed Mr. Adebayo Adewole that they have a bench warrant issued against him by a court of competent Jurisdiction for criminal conspiracy, criminal trespass, threat to life, disobedience to constitution, threat to life over the parcel of land belonging to Kenuj Golf and Resort in Katampe extension Fct.
Mr. Adebayo Adewole calmly obliged their request and further offered to drive them in his car to FCT command.
However, while they were leaving for FCT command, He veered off the normal route and instructed his driver to take the officers to his house.
On arriving his house, he instructed the security men in his house to lock up the officers who came to effect his arrest.
He refused to yield to all entreaties by the officers to release them to return their station until it took the intervention of the DPO who was alerted on the development to come to the rescue of the officers.
Dream Nigeria Movement condemn in it’s entirety the illegal detention and false imprisonment of police officers led by Assistant Superintendent of police Joseph Otanwa of Dawaki Police Station in the house of Adewole Adedayo while carrying out a lawful order of a court of competent Jurisdiction.
Dream Nigeria Movement is aware that Mr. Adebayo Adewole is making frantic efforts to influence the withdrawal of the criminal case from the court again through some top police officers as he did previously before the matter was ordered back to the court by the IGP.
Furthermore, Mr. Adebayo Adewole seems to be above the order given by the DIG Force CID who had earlier directed the Nigeria Police Zone 7 to effect his arrest and bring him to court.
We are calling on the Inspector General of the Nigeria Police to effect the arrest and continue the prosecution of Mr. Adebayo Adewole for the false imprisonment of the police officers to serve as a deterrent to those who believe that they are above the law in Nigeria as such characters pose a risk to the peace and security of our dear nation.
We further call on the legal practitioners Disciplinary Committe of the Nigeria Bar Association to set up an investigation panel against Mr. Adewole Adebayo, a lawyer who knows the law as his action is a threat to rule of law and our democracy and contrary to the ethics of the Noble legal profession.
Signed
Amb Timothy Nwachukwu ( LLB)
Spokesman, Dream Nigeria Movement
