Police Commissioner Lagos, Imohimi Edgal has explained the reasons why
the police transferred the case file of Hip Hop Star, David Adeleke, popularly
known as Davido, to outstate Criminal Investigation Department (CID, Yaba in
Lagos
Speaking on
Channels Television Breakfast Show, Sunrise, Imohimi said the actions of Davido
called for suspicion.
“I asked Davido that, ‘When you left that bar, did you have anything again to
do with the deceased?’ What he said was that he was only informed by mutual
friends in some other bar that the deceased had died and I took his word for
it.
“I called for
further investigations, pulled the CCTV cameras from the General Hospital, only
to discover that it was Davido’s escort Hilux van, his driver, his friends that
brought Tagbo Umeike (the deceased) dead and dumped in the hospital then fled
the scene.”
Imohimi said the
response by Davido raises suspicion, and that was what was being investigated
by the police.
“That raises
curiosity and of course that’s what we are investigating, and that was why I
ordered that the matter be moved to outstate CID at Yaba for proper
investigation and of course, we will duplicate the case file and forward to
DPP, Ministry of Justice for legal advise,” he said.
He said he believed Davido’s initial statement that he was only informed by
mutual friends about Tagbo’s death and even told the actress, Caroline Danjuma
to be careful about what she posts on social media because the integrity of
someone is involved.
“When Actress
Caroline Danjuma came up on Instagram that Tagbo Umeike was in the company of
the Pop-star, Davido and friends when he died and she suspects foul play, I was
forced to call all parties involved to my conference room as a kind of
pre-investigation fact-finding and Davido was there with his family and
friends, the victim’s family and friends plus Caroline Danjuma.
“I asked
questions. I remember even telling Caroline Danjuma that ‘Look you don’t go on
your Instagram page without verifying facts because a person’s reputation is
concerned.”
The acting
commissioner of Police in Lagos, however, said that the police is not
speculating and the investigation into the case is based on facts.
“It is an open sincere process here. We are not speculating, we are basing our
reports on facts,” he said.
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