Alleged Sexual Assault: Ekiti Police helping APC govt. to hunt opposition, I’m not in hiding – Ex-Lawmaker Omotoso
A former member of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon (Dr) Samuel Omotoso has accused the Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr. Dele Mobayo of being used as tool by the All Progressives Congress (APC) of Governor Kayode Fayemi to hunt opposition elements in the State, describing the statement made yesterday, by the State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Sunday Abutu that he had gone into hiding as ‘untrue and capable of misleading the general Public.”
He maintained that “the allegation of sexual assault against me is frivolous and a politically motivated falsehood by the Principal of Christ Girls, Mrs Esan, who considered herself as an old foe and the details had been addressed in my comprehensive press release of Friday, the 30th of April, 2021.”
Omotoso said he will not surrender himself to a police under a compromised police Commissioner who looked the other way when on October 24, 2020, Hon Dayo Maxima’s GNN Hotel in Ado Ekiti was invaded by known government armed thugs and has remained mute on the other thugs that went to Omuo Ekiti to kill five people.
The former lawmaker said it was obvious that he can not get justice from a police command that is openly working in tandem with the State Government and has taken instructions from the state’s Attorney-General, Wale Fapohunda, to arrest, embarrass, molest and detain him indefinitely for no just cause other than being a political factor in the opposition party PDP, most especially from the same constituency with the incumbent Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi.
Dr. Omotoso accused the State Attorney General of boasting last weekend that he will make sure the police declared him wanted this week.
He said an unbiased police would have done their investigation by inviting parents of the girl involved before jumping to the press, adding that “the statement by the Ekiti State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Sunday Abutu that I have gone into hiding is untrue, malicious and capable of misleading the general Public. As it is, the Ekiti State Police is obviously political on this false allegation of sexual assault against me, rather than being professional.”
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“I have been a permanent political issue from the Oye constituency 1 of Ekiti State where I represented in the State House of Assembly between 2015-2019, and where myself and His Excellency John Kayode Fayemi come from and hence i will advice the Ekiti State Police to thread with caution while handling the politically motivated falsehood against me.
“I have not committed any sexual assault on anyone but my political detractors weaponised a girl confirmed as extremely wayward by her own mum and brother, a girl that was desperately looking for absolute freedom for her bad ways and used her to blackmail me after being induced vide brainwashing by her principal with a juicy option of her becoming the daughter of the governor’s wife with free food, clothing and free academics up to the University level.
“The allegation is frivolous and a politically motivated falsehood engineered by the State Attorney General and the Principal of Christ Girls, who considered herself as an old foe of mine and these details had been addressed in my comprehensive press release of Friday, the 30th of April, 2021.
“My media exposure of this falsehood was followed by a barrage of unknown callers threatening my life for having the effrontery to address the press first, where I exposed the falsehood and one of the callers on a private number promised to shoot and kill me anywhere I am seen, saying that I have refused to learn from my colleague, Hon Dayo Adeleye.
“These threats necessitated my instant petition on threat to my life to the Honourable Commissioner of Police, Ekiti State Command, dated 6th of May 2021.
“Rather than look at my petition dispassionately, the police was again trying to turn me the complainant being threatened to the accused. This was deducible from their tone of communication on the petition and confirmed by the manner in which it was mentioned in their press release. All these are to achieve a predetermined political end to hold me in detention at all cost as designed by the State Attorney General.
“This latest petition on serious threat to my life was one out of my several petitions to the police on the same subject matter over the years and up till now nobody has been brought to book. Even when I wrote a direct statement of complaints at the State CID in July 2018, when I was almost shot dead if not for God, even mentioning names of those involved, nothing was done till today.
“Severally, I have also been on this lane before when I was falsely accused similarly like now and was almost politically roped into two previous murders that I know nothing about, whose perpetrators were later caught and confessed to the crime. In one instance, Hon Ade Alagbada of APC, who was Speaker of the House of Assembly, acting on instructions wrote a petition against me, falsely accusing me of killing Hon Micheal Adedeji of blessed memory. The killers were eventually caught by the police and confessed to the crime.
“Would the same police spokesperson have said during that period of false murders allegations like now that I was in hiding when my preoccupation was to secure my life first?
“The Lord that saved me then will deliver me again. Amen.
“Since when my colleague in the 5th Assembly, Hon Dayo Akinleye (Maxima) was attacked and badly battered on October 24, 2020, when his GNN Guest House was completely destroyed and riddled with bullets by known political thugs caught on camera and with the video made widely available. Yet, Hon Akinleye and four others, including two ladies, with injuries on their bodies were the ones detained for several days and they, the victims were still the ones charged to court on frivolous allegations.
“For this, I have learnt to reset my brain to the new normal in Ekiti State and thus maintain a very low profile with safety first, more so when grapevine told me then, that I was next in line of attacks which is manifesting now.
“The same politically bias Police in Ekiti State that despite watching the widely circulated CCTV videos of the brutal gunshots attacks on GNN Hotel by political thugs known to everyone, yet ignored them.
“I have not committed any offence and it is clear that I cannot get justice from a police being politically weaponised and remotely control by my political detractors through the office of the Attorney General of Ekiti State.
“The press release made by the police was a further manifestation of the levels of control that the State Government, acting through the Attorney General of the State have on the police. The police press release was a prelude to my eventual wanted declaration.
“The Attorney General had boasted that as long as he is in office, that I will never be granted bail once arrested, after all he is the one to write the DPPs advice on the same falsehood, especially when his attention was drawn to the fact that the statements of the girl’s mother confirmed the girl as a serial liar and that the allegation against me is a lie, which is in conflict with the statement of the girl being used against me.
“Is this the level of injustice and political persecution that we have descended into in Ekiti State?
“According to the girl’s mother, my house is the third family that the girl in question will run away from while looking for total freedom for her wayward ways and reckless sexual behaviors around numerous boyfriends, keeping late nights while dancing to very loud music in beer parlours as stated and confirmed by her mum and blood brother.
“A simple interaction with the girl’s mother and her brother as well as the Vice Principal of Christ School will have been sufficient for a professional police devoid of political manipulation to throw out the poorly scripted trumped up allegation.
“It is worth noting that the Vice Principal of the same school countered the girl’s lie in front of the same principal on Thursday, the 29th of April 2021, in the presence of the girl’s mother, brother, family lawyer and two policemen that the girl is up to serious mischief because she (VP), still asked the girl in March ending 2021, just before Easter and in the school premises, if anything like Sexual harrassment ever happened to her where she lived under my roof or elsewhere and the girl answered with an emphatic no.
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“This should have naturally prompted the conspirators to abandon the poorly schemed subject matter and discard the lies but the Principal, who have old scores to settle with me and acting under instructions from the Ekiti State Attorney General, would have none of it.
“Rather, when the girl being used became confused and couldn’t alleged me properly in her statements for lack of nothing to write, the principal got angry, scolded her and further appointed a predetermined teacher to dictate what the girl should write.
“This happened in the presence of the girl’s family lawyer despite his protest and with evidence.
“The press release by the police spokesperson is actually serving the ultimate goals of the Ekiti State Attorney General who is behind the poorly orchestrated and politically motivated falsehood, designed to embarrass, harass and ridicule me, while using the machinery of the State to oppress and keep me out of circulation ahead of the next year Ekiti State Governorship Election fireworks in which the Attorney General is an interested party as an aspirant.
“Let me state to the Ekiti State Police Command that I am not in hiding and I will attend to the professional aspect of the false allegation once it is clear that political vendetta is not the ultimate goal as can be seen clearly now.
“The Ekiti State police that refused to arrest the other thugs that killed many people in Omuo Ekiti including a police woman can declared me wanted as boasted and instructed by the State Attorney General. I will be vindicated at last by His Grace.
“This is the sad reality of the era of political injustice and moments in Ekiti State, where victims only suffer the more. That is not my portion in Jesus name. Amen
“We shall surely rise again.”
