By Mr. Pace
The
Police in Lagos State have concluded arrangements to transfer the case
involving Afro hip-hop artiste, David Davido Adeleke, over the death of his
friends, to State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID,
for further investigations. Meanwhile, Davido, yesterday, released a statement,
stating that late Tagbo never entered his car. He also released CCTV footages
of the night’s events. This is as facts emerged that the music star was not
detained after his interrogation by the Police. Tagbo Umeike, DJ Olu and Davido
Police sources revealed that he was allowed to go home after the interrogation,
which lasted for some hours. However, other suspects in the case were said to still
be in Police custody, pending the completion of the process of transfer and
other requirements that will aid detectives in their investigations. It was
also learned that Davido was advised to make himself available any time his
attention was needed, a request he freely consented to. The sources further
revealed that detectives are making frantic efforts to unravel the mystery
surrounding the death of two other friends of the music star, Olugbenga Abiodun
(DJ Olu), son of oil magnate and Chime Amechina, inside a white-coloured BMW
car with number plates KJA 631 AY at an underground garage in Banana Island,
Ocean Parade, Ikoyi. According to sources, “we are also looking into the
veracity of strange findings inside the car where the two died. “We have made contacts
with the necessary departments and as soon as they send their reports to us, we
will then be in a position to comment freely on the issue. “I assure you that
we will not relent in prosecuting anybody involved in the case whether highly
or lowly placed.” Davido mourns DJ Olu Meanwhile, as DJ Olu was being laid to
rest, yesterday, at Ikoyi Cemetery, Davido mourned him:
“Rest on soldier.
Love you forever and ever. Till we meet again! Imma conquer the world for you
lil bro… I promise! (sic).” Davido’s story—Lawyer The statement by Davido’s
lawyer, Norrison Quakers (SAN), entitled The Unfortunate Death of Tagbo Umeike;
Davido’s Story, read:
“Our attention as solicitors to Mr. David Adeleke aka
Davido, has been drawn to statements and comments both on the social,
electronic and print media including but not limited to a very recent
publication by national daily, wherein various statements credited to the
Acting Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr. Edgal Imohimi, insinuating
inter alia that our client has a case to answer in the unfortunate demise of
one Mr. Tagbo Umeike.
“The said publications have all caused our client; Mr.
David Adeleke (otherwise known as Davido), a lot of undue embarrassment thus
necessitating the need to present the facts as they stand, since the
unfortunate incidence is now in the public domain. “First of all we wish to
state that our client was never arrested but rather made himself available to
assist the police in its investigation and after a satisfactory explanation, he
was allowed to go.
“It is imperative to state that the evidence and footage
available to the Police discloses the chain of events leading to the discovery
of the remains of Mr. Tagbo Umeike do not in any way incriminate our Client,
but rather absolves him of any criminal culpability; a fact that the Police is
aware of. “For the records, we wish to state that our Client has not been found
culpable for the death of Mr. TagboUmeike, and this was earlier communicated by
the police in a closed meeting involving the Acting Commissioner of Police,
Lagos, Davido, the family of the deceased and one Caroline Danjuma who claims
to be girlfriend of the deceased.
“Our client was also not involved in the
untimely death of the deceased, nor did he give any instructions to anyone to
‘dump’ the corpse of Mr. TagboUmeike anywhere. Further, and as a matter of
fact, we wish to state that the deceased did not step a foot, even for a
second, in any of our Client’s vehicles on the evening of this sad series of
events. “The facts that can be distilled from the CCTV footage obtained from
“Shisha Room” are that on or about 12:23 am in the early hours of Tuesday the
3rd of October, 2017 our Client got ready to leave the premises of the
“Shisha
Room”, where he had gone to earlier in the company of some of his friends to
celebrate the birthday of one Clarks Adeleke. “Again, we reiterate our client
arrived at the Shisha Room in his vehicle with his friends and the deceased
arrived about one hour later in his own vehicle. The CCTV footage obtained from
the ‘Shisha Room’ captured our Client and some others, including the deceased
all standing close to our Client’s vehicle as he prepared to leave after the
drinks and celebrations.
“The deceased is seen in that footage to be in a very
drunken and intoxicated state as he was staggering and falling on the people
around him. Our Client tried to convince the deceased person to get into his
vehicle in his drunken state so as to take him home safely, but this overture
on our Client’s part was declined by the deceased.
“The CCTV footage further
revealed that our Client drove out of the premises of ‘Shisha Room’, while the
deceased went back into the ‘Shisha Room’ in the company of most of the people
who were all at the car park at the time of our Client’s departure.
“After
departing from the ‘Shisha Room’ our Client honored an invitation to a bar at
Oniru Beach and subsequently went on to DNA Night Club. Regrettably, while in
DNA Night Club with some friends, he received the tragic news of the death of
the deceased.
“It is unfortunate that the stories making the news on the print,
electronic and social media seek to portray our Client as a liar and a callous
friend. We wish to state unequivocally on behalf of our Client, that he was not
present at the time of the death of the deceased, neither did he give anyone
directives or instructions to take the remains of the deceased to the general
hospital or to the morgue.
“Our Client had no knowledge of the deceased’s
movement after he last saw him at the ‘Shisha Room’. Rather, it was friends of
the deceased (who out of concern for the deceased) and without our Client’s
knowledge drove the deceased in (the deceased’s car) to the hospital, while our
Client’s police details escorted the deceased’s car in our Client’s Hilux Pilot
truck. “This they did, because they knew the deceased to be their Boss’ friend
and were merely helping a fellow human being who was in need of help.
“Our
Client maintains that he has not in any way lied about what he knows about the
unfortunate incident, neither has his statement to the Police been incoherent
as unfortunately been presented in the media.
“Others involved have
consistently maintained in their respective statements to the Police that our
Client did not instruct them to take the remains of the deceased to the
hospital, nor did the deceased enter our Client’s vehicle at any point that
evening, nor does he have a hand in the death or transport of the remains of
the deceased
“Our Client is presently grieving the loss of two of his friends,
and deeply condoles with their immediate families; and as his Solicitors, it is
our duty to set the records straight by bringing and putting into the public
space/ domain the truth of what actually transpired.
“It is disheartening that
the image of our Client is being tarnished by mischief makers whose jaundiced
publications and statements have had a negative impact on our Client’s
emotional wellbeing, family and his fan base.
“We therefore appeal to the
members of the public to desist from jumping into uninformed conclusions about
the unfortunate incidence, and further appeal to the media to also desist from
negative publications that seek to project our Client in bad light.
“Our client
in honour of the memory of his departed friends, has suspended his next few
shows and musical engagements. We commiserate with the families of the deceased
and pray that God will comfort them at a time like this.”
watch full CCTV clip here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss4LQmUOevU
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