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As a citizen of this country, you never get to feel the decay or the injustice until it gets to you personally and you have a feel of its sting.
Mid 2021, two of my siblings were swindled by an alledged criminal named Saheed Mosadoluwa AKA Ibile the sum of N30,000,000 in a bid to buy a parcel of land which was later found out to be fraud. When he was confronted with it… he promised to refund the money which he never did. After several months, My sisters took the matter to EFCC and it was to no avail. They were forced to involve our parent. Our parent called this man and pleaded with him on several occasions to please refund this money, during one of the calls, he agreed that they should meet and he gave the meeting point and time which was to be November 20th 2021, 4pm at his office.
On this day my mother had called me to accompany them to the meeting venue… which was Landbook properties, ELeganza Complex opposite VGC.
Unknown to us, it was an ambush… Saheed Mosadoluwa had placed his thugs around the venue. Innocently we went to his office and my mum started by pleading with him that N30M is not a small amount, that he should please refund the money. One of my sisters also pleaded, All Ibile could say was that Not even EFCC chairman can take the money from him that he’s a very powerful man and he is not proud, hence he prostrated for my mum. He went on to say before he will even listen to us, we should go to EFCC and withdraw the case then come back to meet him. At that point my sister’s husband said, if that’s what he wants he should issue us a bank draft so we can have a guaranty to why we will withdraw the matter at EFCC, all effort to get Saheed Mosadoluwa reason with us was to no avail. At that point I said “you said you were not a proud person and you are saying not Even EFCC chairman can take the money from you, and I beg to differ on your statement on not being proud” At this point he flared up and signaled his thugs who came in and pounced on my brother in-law…. On seeing this, I brought out my phone to start recording being a journalist and media practitioner myself.
But Saheed Mosadoluwa saw me and came after me…. He wrestled and struggled with me to take my phone which I resisted. At this point, I was making my way out of his office to an open place where people could see us….. when he saw that he couldn’t take my phone, he went back to his receptionist desk and took a wooden carving as a weapon and came after me while he aimed at hitting my head, I was fortunate to see him on time raising the object and swinging it to my head so I had to dodge it, while dodging it…I lost my stability and staggered, but then he caught up with me and kicked me with his leg and I fell to the ground. He struck again with the weapon but now on my ankle and my bones shattered instantly. This was a pain I couldn’t describe, he still didn’t relent. So I knew I had to run for my dear life. At this point the thugs were still inside dealing with my brother in-law being the only male amongst us. When I stood up from the ground to run… that was when I realized how grievous this damage was. I had no choice but to start hopping on one leg….
By the time I will get to the staircase, I was about being attacked again by two of his thugs whom he had again signaled despite he was still following me closely from behind, but miraculously my driver appeared. The thugs were shocked and not knowing whom my driver was and momentarily dispersed. At this point my driver knew he had to whisk me away from there and picked me up on his back and off we left the scene
One of my siblings saw me with my right foot dangling from my broken ankle and alarmed, beckon on her husband who had just been rescued from thugs to make a quick escape from the premises……. Saheed Mosadoluwa on seeing that I had escaped with a broken leg, he went back to his office to drop the object he used, and knowing that my mum who was oblivious of his action being distracted by the bullies that pounced on my brother-in-law in her presence, now asked her for her account details and transferred N15M on the spot to my mum as if to obliterate his guilt before the innocent old woman.
My driver rushed from there to the hospital and my worst nightmare started from there. The following day, my husband who just returned from a business trip went to Ajiwe police station, Ajah to report the matter and Saheed Mosadoluwa was invited. The suspect as the law would have him called promised to come on Tuesday 23rd November 2023.
Meanwhile, Saheed Mosadoluwa(the suspect) called my mum and was bragging about all he has… saying He lives in Amen Estate, He has N9B in his account, he has an airline, he wasn’t the one that broke my leg…. He has CCTV camera in his office that captured everything…. When I heard he mentioned Amen Estate… Immediately I chatted the MD of Redbrcik Homes Intl Ltd who are the developers of Amen Estate in person of Sade Gbadamosi who is a well known person to me… as a matter of fact we were business partners. So I asked her if she knew Saheed Mosadouwa that he claimed to be living at Amen Estate. And she confirmed that she knows him and that he truly lives at Amen Estate. At that point I explained all that transpired and I told her that He won’t go scot free.
She responded and said she is not happy because we are her two best friends… at that point I was shocked and I asked her that “ How is it that an alleged criminal who was once paraded by the Nigerian Police Force as a notorious criminal be her best friend” so I sent her a PUNCH NEWS Article to that effect.
https://punchng.com/businessman-arrested-n165m-forex-scam/
The following day she came to visit me at the hospital and told me to drop all charges against her friend if I want to collect the balance N15M naira. I was disappointed and took this as an outright blackmail
On the day Saheed Mosadoluwa was supposed to appear at Ajiwe police station, they got a signal that the matter should be transferred to Force CID Alagbon with immediate effect, and that my husband should report there.
On getting there my husband went straight to see the Assistant Inspector General Of Police AIG Usman Beliel who called on SP Beatrice Agbator (the IPO at Alagbon) to brief him about the case… and to my husband’s greatest surprise.. The case was introduced to the AIG as a “Redbrick Case” thereby putting Sade Gbadamosi directly into the matter.
We later found out that Saheed Mosadoluwa filed a counter petition against me that I was the one that brought in thugs to his office.
To our greatest surprise, Saheed Mosadoluwa is well known to every body at Force CID Alagbon as they all hail him every time. My husband registered his displeasure to the AIG and the matter was transferred to DCP Ogundele who as far as I’m concerned is Saheed Mosadoluwa’s friend, who had said my husband must bring me along with evidence that Saheed did it and that if Saheed sees the evidence. He will realize he did it and apologize.
In my broken state, I went to FORCE CID Alagbon on my new crutches after surgery… with video and audio evidence that was clear enough to see the dastard act that Saheed committed on me, DCP Ogundele asked me to handover the evidence to DSP Mac – Donald… Despite I didn’t trust them, despite I totally lost confidence in them, I submitted the evidence. Three months passed and nothing was been done about the case. I went personally on my crutches to see the AIG Usman Beliel and registered my concern that its of concern why the matter was called Redbrick Case and it means Redbrick wants to use their influence to pervert the cause of justice and the fact that Saheed has been bragging about that he has the entire Police force in his pocket…. And with the way Alagbon is trying to sweep this matter under the carpet, It is making it seem so… He promised to look into the matter and get back to us. Another two months passed and nothing happened.
Having waited several months for Alagbon to conclude their investigation, I realized it was an effort in futility as they never even started any investigation in the first place, So I wrote a petition to the Honourable Attorney General of Lagos, and Inspector General of Police respectively
Within a week, the ministry of justice, Lagos acted on my petition and detailed State CID Panti, Yaba, who swung into action. However, attempts to get Ibile arrested were obstructed, as a matter of fact, on one of such attempts at his Residence at Amen Estate, Sade Gbadamosi met the police and said she owns the estate, and that they should leave, that she will bring him to Panti by herself the following day, which she never did..
Hereafter, my petition got to the Inspector General of Police and The Inspector General also acted swiftly on my petition and directed the IG Monitoring Unit to take action immediately.
SP Akin and ASP Lasisi from the IG Monitoring unit, Abuja came to Lagos and succeeded in arresting Saheed Mosadoluwa AKA Ibile and Sade Gbadamosi (developer of Amen Estate) right inside the Force CID Alagbon premises, after ASP Mac Donald coincidentally called both parties to a meeting.
Ibile and Sade Gbadamosi were detained and later bailed.
To my greatest surprise, after Sade Gbadamosi was bailed, she has denied me access to my building and property at Amen Estate Phase 2, with a standing instruction at the estate gates that myself and my family as well as our workers should not be allowed to go into the estate to our building and that they should use all means possible to restrain us.
This came as a huge surprise and makes me wonder if this is the fate of my several clients who now own properties in the estate, should they ever have personal issues with Sade Gbadamosi, she will lock them out of their houses?
Is this how far people can now take laws into their hands? Well, this has been her way, because few years back She and her husband demolished a part of my building in Amen Estate Phase 2, saying they did not realize it did not align with their unique air space setback rules on first floor, having approved my building plan and construction drawings and watched us attain the development to roof level. They demolished a section of my building with little or no regards for rule of law.
We were then invited to Force headquarters Abuja where all parties were present. In the presence of police, Sade Gbadamosi insisted that I will not have access to my house at Amen Estate Phase 2, and that she needs a video of where Ibile broke my leg and continued her threats and oppression. And also for the fact she had actually invited me to a realtors hang-out at phase 3 site in the middle of nowhere, kilometers into the bush, where Ibile and his thugs were present, knowing fully well that Ibile already attempted my life once and caused me grievous body harm.
On this account, Sade Gbadamosi was further detained at Abuja and later granted bail.
On getting back to Lagos, Ibile and Sade Gbadamosi continued their intimidation, oppression, bullying and threats to my life and that of my family.
I believe we are a nation bound by laws and no one is above the law. If people like Sade Gbadamosi and Ibile are using their money and affluence to corrupt the system, they can’t bribe their way all the time, and I believe in some incorruptible police officers in the force who have taken it upon themselves to keep the flag flying no matter what, I believe there are police officers who still believes we can salvage this country and change the narrative.
This is a criminal matter with glaring evidence of the act of crime and I’m bewildered as to why this matter hasn’t be charged to court of competent and jurisdiction already to see that Justice is served promptly
All evidence has been submitted to the IG Monitoring Unit for over a month now, after same evidence was with Force CID Alagbon for over 4 months, the delay of the process calls for worries.
I sincerely want to appreciate the Inspector General Of Police, Alkali Baba Usman and the Attorney General of Lagos, Mr Moyosore Onigbanjo(SAN) who are using their good offices to help shine light into this matter so far.
And I want to implore the IGP to help see to it that this case is not unnecessarily and intentionally delayed as was the case at Alagbon. Delay in justice could mean denial. This matter has been with Nigerian Police Force for close to 6 months now.
I believe Nigeria will be great again. And I believe people like Sade Gbadamosi and Saheed Mosadoluwa AKA Ibile are not above the law. The keep threatening me all the time even to the glare of police officers at Alagbon, And I want to say it clearly here, if anything happens to me , any member of my family or my staff, Sade Gbadamosi and Saheed Mosadoluwa AKA Ibile should be held responsible As strange and unknown people now appears in my place of residence and my offices.
As a young entrepreneur who depends solely on her personal struggles… having to be brutally assaulted causing grievous bodily harm… As we speak my ankle is supported by 12 screws and metals which will likely be there for the rest of my life and having to walk with two crutches is not only affecting my life…. It’s affecting my mental health, my self-esteem, my business, my life and everything around me…..
And for the man who put me through this agony gallivanting and threatening about that if I go to the media, I will see what will happen…. And saying that he will buy his way even in court goes to show that he is making a mockery of the justice system in this country
I’m using this medium to call on The Inspector General of Police, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Attorney General of Lagos, Human Right Commission, Attorney General Of the Federation and all my colleagues in the media to help make the justice system work before this criminal walking freely in our midst gets to cripple another innocent victim
Best Regards
Adeyinka Igbinoba
