The Olodogbo of Odogbo-Ijesha in Osun State, Oba Olatunde Oginni, has sued the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Ngozi Onadeko; the Area Commander of Iyaganku, ACP Sunday Oke; DSP Yussuf Olalekan Are, and nine others, seeking N100 million damages over his arrest and detention between May 28 and 29, 2021.
The suit instituted by his counsel, Oladipo Olasope (SAN) before an Ibadan High Court, accused the state police boss and others of breaching his fundamental human rights as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution with his arrest and detention for two days.
The court papers read in part: “That the arrest and detention and constant invitation of the applicant by the respondents over a purely civil matter of landlord/tenant relationship is a breach of the constitutional right of the applicant.”
The monarch, through a petition by his counsel, had accused Onadeko of taking side in a tenancy case between him and some aggrieved tenants, challenging what he described as the high handedness of men of Oyo State Police Command.
Oba Oginni insisted that the police boss was not satisfied because of the petition written to the office of the Inspector General of Police (IG) and the Police Service Commission (PSC).
According to him, “Police from the Iyaganku Police Division denied me of fair hearing after unlawfully arresting my aides who are watching over my property (HRH Olatunde Oginni Retail Market at Dugbe, Ibadan), where some hoodlums that were protesting over tenancy issue threatened to destroy the edifice after collecting gratification. They were detained for nine days at Iyaganku Area Command.
“I can boldly say that CP Onadeko is not competent to secure a volatile state, such as Oyo, as it’s evident in many security breaches we are experiencing here under her watch.”
