I am now safely out of the labyrinth of a police conspiracy centered
\naround one Lekan Fatodu whom, in January 2016, we reported on
\nSaharaReporters had been involved in laundering money for Femi
\nFani-Kayode.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday<\/span><\/span>, Lekan and a friend of his referred to as \u201c\u00c1ndre\u201d waylaid me Even in the days of General Abacha, I did not experience that brazen My attack by Fatodu was organized with the police, but as they were unable I was asked to sign for my bail on Self Recognizance, but I declined, I wish to thank all Nigerians and others who have reached out to me over I will return to Panti on Thursday<\/span><\/span> as requested, to confront the police I am now safely out of the labyrinth of a police conspiracy centered around one Lekan Fatodu whom, in January 2016, we reported on SaharaReporters had been involved in laundering…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nat GRA Ikeja and tried to kill me. The attempt was resisted by the public,
\nfollowing which he showed up later with a police van from Area “F” police
\nwith a plain cloth police team. As it turned out, Commissioner of the
\nLagos State Police Command, Fatai Owoseni was part of the conspiracy, as
\nhe pulled out a petition alleging “criminal defamation” against me, got
\nupset when I questioned his position and impartiality, and threatened to
\ndeal with me.<\/p>\n
\npartiality.<\/p>\n
\nto arrest me directly, he was given the cover to carry out an attack that
\nwould give the police their needed tonic to take vengeance on me. The
\nsituation wasn’t better when I was hurled before Lagos CP, Mr. Owoseni and
\nlater, Frank Mba, who started a winding story claiming it was a messy
\ncase.<\/p>\n
\ninsisting I had not been arrested by the police and were that the case,
\nthat I preferred to be booked and shown an arrest warrant. After a short
\nargument, I was let go without signing a bail bond, but was asked to
\nreturn to the Panti Police Station on Thursday<\/span><\/span> at 2p.m.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
\nthis saga. I am grateful to Peter Claver Oparah, Temitope Gomez and
\nInibehe Effiong who served last night as my lawyer, as well as the
\nconstruction workers at Isaac John Street who came out to defend me from
\nwhat could have been a fatal attack.<\/p>\n
\nover the case. Rest assured that I’ve always prepared for things of this
\nnature this in the course of my self-appointed duties as a conscience of
\nthe public. If you have spare time tomorrow<\/span><\/span>, meet me at the SCID at Panti
\nat 2 pm<\/span><\/span>. There is no retreat and no surrender.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"