By Christine Onwuachumba
Human rights activist and lawyer, Chief Abdullahi Dania, has applauded the Force Criminal Investigation Department, Annex, Alagbon, Lagos, for what he described as professionalism in handling a case of alleged abduction and intimidation of a contractor by the wife of a politician.
His commendation was contained in a letter he sent to the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Force CID, where investigation into the case is currently going on. He urged the police to bring the investigation to a logical and unbiased end.
The case, according to Dania, involved a disputed transaction between one Alhaji Abdullahi Suleiman and the politician’s wife. Dania, in the letter of commendation addressed to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Force CID, Ogundele Ayodeji, mentioned Ayodeji; the Commissioner of Police, Homicide Section, as well as the head of the investigating team and the Investigating Police Officer involved in the matter, for being objective in the investigation.
Shedding light on the case, he explained that the politician’s wife contracted Suleiman, who is a client of Dani and Associates law firm, to supply and install lift elevators at her hotel in the Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos.
However, trouble, according to him, started when the woman alleged a delay in the execution of the project and claimed an external technician she engaged to work on the already installed lifts said the facility was fabricated and not original.
She was alleged to have subjected Suleiman and his wife, Arinola Oriadetu Suleiman, to harassment and intimidation.
The letter of commendation dated August 7, 2024, stated that the politician’s wife admitted before the Commissioner of Police Homicide Section to having allegedly lured Suleiman to attend a meeting at a hotel, where the victim alleged that he was beaten by eight persons, among whom were four mobile policemen.
The letter stated that Suleiman was subjected to further humiliation by the woman and the police officers.
Dania, while appealing to the police authorities for a speedy investigation, urged a probe of the police officers to have been involved in the alleged assault.