A lawyer, Wahab Shittu, has asked the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Abiodun Alabi, to investigate alleged death threats against his client, Sariyu Afolashade Olalude.
Shittu alleged that Nollywood actress Elizabeth Ibukunolu Anjorin, popularly known as Liz Anjorin, has been issuing death threats against Afolashade despite the pendency of a fundamental rights suit she filed against her before Justice T.G. Ringim of the Federal High Court, Lagos.
Shittu claimed that the life of his client, Afolashade, is presently in danger “from the violent threat issued by Nollywood actress, Elizabeth Ibukunolu Anjorin popularly known as Liz Anjorin, a Nollywood actress.”
The petition dated August 30, 2022 is titled: “Re: Suit No: FHC/L/CS/1488/22: Alhaji Lawal Abdul-Lateef Adegboyega and Mrs Sariyu Afolashade Olalude: Threat to Life Issued By Elizabeth Ibukunolu Anjorin (Popularly Called “Liz Anjorin”) – Urgent Request For Police Protection Sariyu Folashade Olalude (Our Client).”
He said the threats by Liz Anjorin is presently trending on the social media.
The petition stated in part: “Sir, we write briefly to state that the life of our client Sariyu Folashade Olalude is presently in danger from the violent threat issued by Elizabeth Ibukunolu Anjorin popularly known as Liz Anjorin, a Nollywood Actress.”
Shittu said:”The said Elizabeth Ibukunolu Anjorin a few days ago issued a public notice via social media through https://fb.watch/fdwl-9KOwh/ through which she threatened to violently eliminate immediately one Sariyu Folashade Olalude (our client) as soon as she locates her residential address.
“We request the immediate invitation of Elizabeth Ibukunolu Anjorin to explain the circumstances why she issued the threat against our client.
“Indeed the life of our client is in danger. The parties are already in court in a civil suit. Please see the attached processes.
“Please save the life of our client from untimely death”, he stated.
Meanwhile, trial will begin tomorrow at a Federal High Court, Lagos in a fundamental rights suit filed by one Lawal Abdullateef Adegboyega, against his estranged wife, Mrs Sariyu Folashade Olalude.
Adegboyega is the new husband to Lizzy Anjorin.
In the suit before Justice Akintayo Aluko, Afolashade has, however, prayed the court to dismiss the suit filed by her estranged husband on the ground that it was aimed at truncating an ongoing police investigation against him.
Other defendants in the suit are: the state Commissioner of Police and the Nigerian Police Force.
Afolashade, who is the first respondent in the suit, in a counter affidavit filed by her lawyer, Wahab Shittu, averred that she met the applicant in 2016 through his friend, one Mr. Saheed Abogun, and they got married in 2017 after a formal customary introductory ceremony in her father’s house at lyana Iyesi, Ota, Ogun State.
She said the marriage was blessed with two children, Lateefat Lawal, born in 2017 and Khadijat Lawal born in 2020.
She averred that they were both living as husband and wife at No. 7 New Oko-Oba Road, Fagba, Lagos and that the second product of their marriage, Khadijat Lawal was three to four months old, when the applicant suddenly absconded from their matrimonial home, abandoned her and the children without any justifiable reasons in 2020, stopped meeting his marital obli
Folashade claimed she found out later that Adegboyega had started a relationship Lizzy Anjorin, and that they both launched a vitriolic attacks on her and her children on various social media platforms in order for the applicant to abandon his matrimonial responsibilities to her and the two children of their marriage.
Afolashade said she officially reported the applicant and his new wife, Lizzy Anjorin, to the Police at Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos Island adding that sequel to which the second, third and fourth respondents officially invited the applicant but has been shunning Police invitations repeatedly.
Adegboyega had dragged his estranged wife, Folashade before the court in a fundamental rights enforcement suit marked FHC/L/CS/1488/22.
Other defendants in the suit are the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2, Onikan, Lagos, it’s Officer-in-Charge of the Monitoring Unit, and one Mrs. Tina, an Investigation Police with the Zone 2.
The applicant, Adegboyega in the suit filed by his lawyer, M. B. Bello, asked the court for “a declaration that the continuous harassment, humiliation, spreading of falsehood, and abuse on social media against him and his family by his estranged wife first, is vindictive, unwarranted, abrasive, oppressive, and same constitute a flagrant breach of the applicant’s rights to private and family life, as respectively provided and enshrined under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As Amended) and, therefore, unconstitutional and illegal.
He prayed the court for a declaration that his continuous harassment, intimidation and humiliation by the second to fourth respondents and their officers at the instance of his estranged wife, is vindictive, unwarranted, oppressive and same’ constitute a flagrant breach of his rights to personal liberty and dignity of human person, as respectively provided and enshrined under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights “(Ratification and Enforcement) Act and, therefore, unconstitutional and illegal.
The applicant also prayed the court for N5 million and N1 million against his ex-wife and the police respectively, on the footing of aggravated and/or exemplary damages for continuous harassment humiliation, spreading of falsehood, and abuse-on social media against him and his family.