The Inspector-General of Police (IG), Usman Baba, has ordered the Zone 2 Command to withdraw the suit filed at the High Court of Lagos against Managing Director of Masters Reality International Concepts Limited, Lai Omotola.
He said the documents used in filing the suit were forged.
This is contained in the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the police investigation report from the IG’s office forwarded to Omotola.
Omotola had earlier demanded for the CTC of the investigation which confirmed that CSP Alabi Akinjide forged documents which the Lagos State government used in filing a criminal case against him in respect to a disputed land at 63 Iju Road, Agege.
The businessman, last week, accused the Lagos Attorney-General (AG) and Commissioner for Justice, Moyosore Onigbanjo (SAN), of using forged police documents to file criminal charges against him in court.
But Onigbanjo asked Omotola to appear in court to make a case for the charge to be dismissed if indeed the allegation was true.
The CTC of the police investigation report was signed by Head of the IGP Monitoring Unit, ACP Ibrahim Musa.
The report said the counter petition by a lawyer, Adeniyi Odunsi, investigated by CSP Akinjide against the complainant (Omotola), was not formally received with official stamp, and there was no minute of approval by the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 2 as admitted by Alabi.
It added: “Given the circumstances surrounding this case and findings, it is obvious that Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos, conducted a shoddy and lopsided investigation of the case initially reported by the complainant against CSP Yinka Egbeyemi and Mr. Owolabi Arole, Head of the Lagos State Taskforce on Land Grabbing, who supervised the demolishing of structures erected by the complainant with a newspaper publication to that effect on January 27, 2020.
“The suspect’s refusal to report at Zone 2 to respond to the allegations reported by the complainant, and the discontinuing of investigation of the case by police to a logical conclusion without reasonable cause suggests that the investigation was inconclusive.”
The IGP recommended that ‘in the interest of fairness and justice, the charge filed at High Court of Lagos State against the complainant be withdrawn by Zone 2, and the entire case be re-assigned to Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) for thorough and comprehensive investigation of the case of malicious damage, threat to life and conduct likely to cause breach of public peace as reported by the complainant, while the police should stay away from the dispute of ownership of land which is civil and already pending before a court of competent jurisdiction.”