The alleged rape and ritual case involving
popular Fuji musician, Alhaji Abass Akande, aka Obesere, arrested for allegedly
raping a 29-year-old business woman, Miss Olanike Olaiya, in his Okota
residence may have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation
Department, (SCID.)Thanks to his contact in the police at the top.
According to a
source who disclosed that Obesere found it difficult to pressurize the Divisional
Police Officer at Isolo Division, Aminu Ibrahim at Isolo into striking out the
matter or persuade the victim to accept a settlement. Obesere , then contacted
some top citizens to wade into the matter by persuading the DPO to soft-pedal
on the matter but they backed down when they discovered that the police
have incriminating evidence against the musician.
Meantime, the
victim,Olanike Olaiya, who had relocated to her home town, Sagamu in Ogun
State, where she is currently receiving treatment narrated that:
“As I speak with you, I am in Sagamu, my home town,
where I have been receiving traditional treatment since the incident occurred.
“I bled for more
than two weeks after Alhaji Obesere raped me and inserted his ring into my
private part. The incident occurred on February 12, 2013 and I have spent a lot
of money treating myself.
“The DPO, Isolo
Police division, took pity on me and refused to give in to Obesere’s pressure
to strike out the case and God will bless him for that.
“But last week I
was informed that the case had been transferred to the SCID and my
Investigating Police Office, IPO, at Isolo asked me to come to the station on Tuesday
for the transfer.
“But when I got
to the SCID, I discovered the IPO, who took over the case, one Mr. Jacob, I
don’t know his rank, became hostile to me.
“You need to see
how this man treated me. He started by asking me to write a new statement and when
I tried to explain that I had written a statement at Isolo division, he
rebuffed my explanation and insisted I wrote a new one.
They threatened
to kill me’’ “Afterwards, they started threatening me. The IPO, Alhaji Obesere,
and some of his brothers, who were present there, asked me to stop the
journalists from publishing my story and if I don’t, I will be a dead person.
“I was so
frightened when they said this and each time my phone rang someone would pick
it up to know who was calling.
“Later, they
discovered I wasn’t going to break, then they started begging me and
promised to take care of me. Alhaji Obesere even said he was going to take me
to the best hospital for treatment. “At the end, I rose to leave and they
offered to drop me in my place. The IPO also insisted that I should follow
them. Instead of taking me to my area, they took me to Obesere’s house and the
woman who introduced me to him was also there.
“While I was
with them I alerted the police at Isolo and told them where I was.
“But yesterday,
they called after they saw the publication and started threatening again to
kill me.
“I am highly
terrified, that was why I travelled back to my home town to
get some treatment.”
As Pa Joseph Fagbola
rightly said, ‘’This lack of justice for
all and sundry, has led to desire the for favoritism, nepotism, cronyism and
chaos. Not only that. The infallibility of the judicial system can no longer be
guaranteed by the common person-the last, the least and the lowest in the
society like Olanike Olaiya in her debacle with Abass Akande-a case involving
heinous crimes of rape, assault and battering, occasioning bodily harm. This
type of perpetration of injustice, in many cases, have led to jungle justice
whereby those who cannot afford the money/time to do the procurement, and those
who have lost confidence in the system resort to barbarism, taking laws into
their hands by killing, maiming, and even trying by ordeal, those people they
perceived to be wrong-doers. In this type of mob trial, there is no room for
any due process of the law. It is either the the accused is punished without
any orderly and adequate procedure, or he is allowed to escape justice and go
away scot free to continue perpetrating his/her iniquity as the SCID is helping
Obesere to do in this case.
I will advise Olanike Olaiya not to keep quiet, but to seek the assistance of
some charitable humanitarian organizations to help her obtain justice. As a
first step she should obtain the service of a lawyer (this is the type of case I
would love to do even pro bono), who would help her write a petition to the
Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police Command, Oba Akinjobi Street Ikeja,
or better still, forward her petition directly to the Inspector General of
Police Abuja, She should be courageous and undaunting enough, not allow the
case to be swept under the carpet’’
