The Assistant Inspector General of Police is reported to have
ordered the arrest of popular pop singer David Adeleke otherwise called
Davido, over an on-going assault case.
A month ago, the Crime Digest of Punch Newspapers reported that the
singer had allegedly assaulted a taxi driver Femi Ajibola at Beni
Apartments in Victoria Island in Lagos.
Davido however denied the allegations. His publicist Valeri Obaze
told NET at the time, that the artiste would not be commenting on the
issue as the incident was ‘under investigation’. Things seemed to have
died down and Davido flew out of the country.
But the matter has exploded again as those close to Ajibola say he is
‘hell bent on making sure justice is served’. New developments have
arisen from the July 1 incident and all don’t seem to be in favour of
the 19-year-old.
For starters, Davido’s cousins, HKN Gang members Sinarmabo and B.Red
have been roped into the assault case as a certain Hashiru Azeez who
Crime Digest reports as Ajibola’s employers says that Davido himself
said that the taxi driver was assaulted by his cousins.
Azeez is said to have given Ajibola a Toyota Corolla on hire
purchase. This is the same vehicle he used in transporting Susie, the
lady who reportedly hired Ajibola to transport her to Davido.
‘I gave it out to him on hire purchase. When Ajibola initially told
me about this matter, I did not believe him. Later, I went to Beni’s
Apartment in company with Sgt Nuru Umar, who is the Investigating Police
Officer, and we found out that he was right’, Hashiru Azeez explains.
‘We went to the DPO and he called Davido’s father after I took time to explain who the boy was’, Azeez added.
Surprisingly, there is now a fresh allegation that Susie is threatening Ajibola.
‘I got a call from Ajibola that Susan allegedly went to the park to
threaten him. She said that if he was claiming that he lost N100,000
during the incident with Davido, she would pay the money. Then she asked
if the cab driver had forgotten that she lost her cell-phone, which was
valued at N175,000’, Azeez keeps explaining.
‘She said that Ajibola would have to produce her phone because he was
the one that took them to the hotel in his cab. She added that she
would deal with him,” he added.
Azeez said this was when he decided to report the matter to the
nearest Police Station which was in Maroko on the outskirts of Lagos.
But since the case had initially been reported at the Bar Beach Police
Station, Ajibola was directed to go and lodge his complaint there.
The influential Adelekes had however been aware of what was going on
after a petition had been written on Ajibola’s behalf to the Assistant
Inspector-General of Police in charge of Zone 2 about the incident.
Azeez says they invited the driver Ajibola for a meeting.
‘A lawyer, Malachy Ukwamadu, wrote a petition on our behalf to the
AIG Zone 2. We had written the petition even before the publication.
Somehow, the Adeleke family got to know that we had written a petition
and they got someone to ask me to come with Ajibola to the Bar Beach
Police Station. They said they would bring Davido to the station. The
boy had surrendered himself and the police were ready to prosecute him.
It was hard to believe, but I was optimistic’, the car dealer said.
But Azeez said he was advised not to honour the invitation by a
policeman who warned that the case might be tilted to the advantage of
Davido.
‘The policeman warned that there was an ulterior motive behind the
invitation. He said the moment that Ajibola stepped into the Bar Beach
Police Station; the case would change and turn against him. This
prompted us to invite a lawyer to go to the station instead of Ajibola.
Ukwamadu was out of town. So, we invited Barrister Ademola Olamide.
While we waited for them to bring Davido, the IPO told the lawyer that
they wanted to negotiate’.
‘Olamide insisted the other party bring over Davido why was it that
it was the police that wanted to negotiate. Should they not be neutral?’
The meeting eventually happened – ‘Davido said that he was not the
one that assaulted Ajibola. He said that the guys we were claiming were
his bodyguards were actually his cousins. He said that it was Bayo
(B.Red) one of his cousins, who beat up Ajibola’, Azeez says.
But Azeez was not buying any of that; he then asked what business Bayo had with Susie since she was Davido’s girlfriend.
‘We told him that from his conversation, Susan was his girlfriend and
why would Bayo beat up Susan? At a point, they said that they would
like to compensate Ajibola and that they wanted to know how much Ajibola
made in a day’.
“They said that they would pay two weeks’ earnings. I was not there
when they were discussing the money issue. I told my lawyer that there
was no basis for compensation since he denied assaulting Ajibola. I said
he should produce those who beat up Ajibola, that the police should do
their job and we would know what step to take from there’, he said.
Azeez says Ajibola’s car keys have not been returned to him.
Reports say the Police Public Relations Officer, Zone 2 Police
Command, Femi Balogun, hasconfirmed that the case is being handled by
his command. He said that the AIG had ordered that Davido should be
brought before him with the Toyota Corolla used as taxi.
Davido is currently in the US where he recently shot two videos off his debut album ‘Omo Baba Olowo: The Genesis’.
While the singer was not immediately available for comments, Valeri
Obaze, his publicist told us via E-mail, that she ‘will get back to us’.
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