Suspected Badoo kingpin petitions VP, NASS against Lagos CP for declaring him wanted, sealing his properties

Babatunde Ojehomon, the lawyer representing wanted suspected Badoo kingpin, Abayomi Alaka has revealed that his client has filed a petition against Mr.Edgal Imohimi, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command.

According to Ojehomon, his client has tabled a petition addressed to the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the National Assembly and others against the Lagos CP for declaring him wanted and sealing his properties.

Speaking from his chambers located in Ibadan, Oyo State, Ojehomon who said the Lagos CP was after Alaka because he had “an axe to grind with him” noted that his client has instituted a case against the IG and Imohimi at the Federal High Court.

Ojehomon 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.

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“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, 51, was about two weeks ago declared wanted by the Lagos State Police Command “in connection with series of well-orchestrated killings and nefarious activities of the Badoo cult group”.

The businessman whose event centre and filling station were closed down by the state government is wanted after he was fingered for allegedly being the prime suspect in killings believed to have been perpetrated by the dreaded Badoo cult in Ikorodu area of Lagos.

 

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