Sade Balogun, Ibile, Igbinoba Case: Sandra Duru releases more facts, takes case to IGP
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It has been confirmed that the police officers who handled this investigation acted out of place and very unprofessionally by using their personal bank accounts to receive monies from the suspect, who had been coerced and directed to make financial settlements, and the charges against him would be dropped.
This act fully indicted the police department, as the Nigeria Police Force is not a debt recovery agency, and none of its officers should ever be used in any capacity for such extra-judicial activities. Yes, the police can arbitrate and mediate on behalf of aggrieved parties but must never be weaponized to recover debts!
The plaintiff alleged that Saheed Ibile owed a sum of N30 million, being refund demanded on the land purchase deal that turned sour.
It is well established that during this saga, Saheed Ibile paid the sum of N15 million directly to Yinka’s mother; two separate payments of N10 million each were made to the police officers’ account, and an extra N1 million was also added as part of the damages claimed from him.
It has also been confirmed on good authority that the money paid by Saheed Ibile got to Yinka Igbinoba, and she took care of the recovery team – which is her business, by the way.
The final report given to the police on this matter was utterly false and misleading. However, now that the full facts about how a full settlement had already been made are now available, this matter should be concluded immediately, please.
(2) FALSIFIED CHARGE | MISLEADING THE POLICE
There was never an attempted murder or any viable threat of it on the plaintiff’s life, as alleged. Hence, there is NO CASE!
Yinka and everyone in her corner falsified the charge, submitted trumped-up and irrelevant video evidence, and totally misled and misinformed the police department. The police also messed up during the alleged investigations.
For instance, two logical questions should have been asked about Yinka’s purported video evidence that we’re never raised and intelligently examined:
(a) Did the supposed video evidence submitted contain any footage or clips related to the alleged aggravated assault she claimed was carried out against her and her brother-in-law?
(b) Was there even an official video submitted as evidence to the police, or was it only the one circulated on social media by the plaintiff that the investigating officers also assumed and acted on?
International police standard procedures demand that any evidence tendered in an ongoing investigation MUST never be made public until such investigation is conclusively concluded. Failure to have abided by this and many more simple procedures have faulted the investigation and officers involved in it for the police, too.
Hence, to save both the image of the entire police force and valuable tax-payers resources, too, this matter should be summarily dismissed with immediate effect.
It will amount to an abuse of administrative power and a gross human rights violation to still charge Saheed Ibile and Sade Balogun for no existing crimes, especially after the police had already settled the matter and full payment | damages were duly paid.
(3) UNPROFESSIONAL POLICE REPORT
The police report published on Twitter was totally unprofessional and unethical, and it needs to be updated to suit international police standards practices and conform to legal standards worldwide.
(a) It completely painted the wrong picture about Saheed Ibile and Sade Balogun and literally condemned them as criminals already, even without a trial.
Yet, international police standards recommend that every suspect is innocent until proven guilty and must be treated as such, no matter what the situation or circumstances are. Such a grave error must be avoided in every future report henceforth, please.
(b) Personal social media handles should not be used to tweet or post official police matters directly.
Reports, press releases, official statements, and related materials can be re-tweeted by officers involved after it has been posted on the official Nigeria Police Force accounts, but not directly on private handles.
No matter how personal a case is, every security agent has a duty to the office they represent to always keep it formal and professional at all times!
(3) Until a verdict has been conclusively reached in a competent court of law, certain private and vital details about an ongoing case | investigation must never be disclosed on social media reports or releases – as it was in this case in question.
(4) PUBLIC RETRACTION
A retraction should be published on social media by the police to notify the public that some hidden truths and facts about the case have recently come to light, and it has now been resolved.
The police should also publicly make it known that both the civil and alleged criminal matters between Saheed Mosadoluwa Ibile, Sade Balogun, and Yinka Igbinoba have been comprehensively resolved by the police after proper investigation and settled accordingly.
This notice should also clearly state that any aggrieved party is free to seek redress in court.
(5) PUBLIC NOTICE | WARNING!
The police should warn all parties involved, and all their associates in any capacity, to never name-drop any of its officers, mention them online, or anywhere else regarding this case again.
Failure or refusal to abide by this will be considered an affront to any mentioned officer and the Nigeria Police Force, and any erring party will be duly prosecuted for that charge under the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria immediately!
SOME SALIENT QUESTIONS
Why invite parties back when the police department has all that is needed at its disposal? I have investigated this matter and have everything to prove you and your officers were biased, unprofessional, and corrupt!
It’s not only about the settlement of the money paid through the police with glaring evidence and other verifiable facts and evidence.
What about Babatunde Gbadamosi’s claims that later manifested in the report?
What about Yinka, Kemi, and Eniola’s claims that manifested in the report thereafter?
What about the unlawful arrest and detention of Sade Balogun and the drama surrounding her bail and the public police report defaming her and her business that has no connection with the case?
Who pays for their flight tickets, hotel accommodation, and inconvenience to come to Abuja again on a matter that the facts are right in your faces and glaring to the public?
What about their safety after all that has been uncovered? What if it is a plot by the aggrieved police officers and their cohorts to harm them?
There are safety concerns about the way and manner the IGP and his team are handling this straightforward case. It’s either the corruption in the Nigeria police has eaten too deep or we have incompetent and unintelligent police officers in the police department and they need to be FIRED! And replaced.
There is proof of settlement, payment to the police investigating officer, and co and correspondences with dates and so many other proofs yet to be unveiled. The bank statements are with my team and show how the money was received with dates and how the money went out. So, any foul play will be messy.
The police had the written statements of all the parties and the parties were also interviewed so, are all the police telling us that at no point in all these they didn’t come across the over 36m settlement payments and the IPO also didn’t brief the police department of the settlement money paid through his bank account?
As I have mentioned in all my official reviews, petitions, and recommendation to the police, especially to the IGP on this matter, I and my local and international private investigators, and human rights organizations are not taking this lightly and may use it as a case study to retrain some of the Nigerian police officers in America and also expose and bring all the corrupt officers, and those who misled and misinformed the public and the entire police department and judicial system to book.
Some people’s rights were seriously violated.
Once again, I have never lost in any battle that I chose to fight ever since my existence on earth and I choose my battles carefully.
I neither need the accused nor the complainants to tidy up on this matter that i have a personal interest in. I have handled similar matters that affected Ogbonna Onovo, Tafa Balogun, A Z. Gadzama, A. N. Ihesiaba, Ndanusa Akanya, Hafiz Ringim, Abba Kyari, Rochas Okorocha, etc.
I do not engage in drama or noisemaking. I silently take care of issues if some people feel they are above the law or mightier than others. I love challenges and i pray the present IGP and his team do the needful professionally and close this case honorably.
-Dr. Sandra Duru.
RESPONSE, PETITION FOR ANNULMENT OF REPORT BY IGP MONITORING TEAM AND RE-INVESTIGATION OF CASE BETWEEN YINKA IGBINOBA, SAHEED MOSADOLUWA IBILE, AND MADAM SADE BALOGUN
Following a recent report allegedly submitted by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Monitoring Unit in the case between Yinka Igbinoba vs. Saheed Mosadoluwa Ibile and Madam Sade Balogun, we hereby seek to contest the reported findings and final recommendations of the report, as it is biased, unprofessional, misleading, and maliciously damaging to the innocent brand and image of our sister, friend, citizen, and close associate, Madam Sade Balogun.
A press release was also issued to this effect by the FPPRO, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on September 7, 2022, with Ref No. CZ.5300/FPRD/FHQ/ABJ/VOL.4/
Said press release was maliciously titled: “AMEN ESTATE CASE: POLICE DID PERFECT INVESTIGATIONS, JUSTICE – FPRO” with a rider that says: “Suspects only Crying Foul for Undue Sympathy, As Lagos Government Sets to Prosecute Culprits, Ibile.”
CSP Muyiwa Adejobi claims that the “police did perfect investigations” on this case in contention and alleges that the “suspects are crying foul for undue sympathy.”
However, both claims are as far from the truth as the heavens are as far from the earth, and we have irrefutable pieces of evidence, materials, and facts to prove this!
It may interest the public to know that in a recent phone conversation with CSP Adejobi on this same case in question, he openly admitted his shock, surprise, and ignorance about some very key and damning facts about this same case he claims was “perfectly-investigated,” yet some of the few facts we will point out below were alien to him. This is quite bizarre, isn’t it?
According to CSP Adejobi, the police’s “detailed investigation into the petition has successfully addressed the three (3) salient issues” about this case, and he presented those issues in his press release.
Due to some libelous and defaming claims made in this release and the police report, we have decided to painstakingly go through it so that we can present the truth to the public.
And, having been privy to the situation before and several vital facts that the investigators look to have shockingly omitted, missed, or deliberately ignored, here are our well-detailed observations and findings in two parts, and petition below:
SECTION A: OBVIOUS QUESTIONABLE CLAIMS IN COMPLAINANT’ S STATEMENTS THAT AN UNBIASED INVESTIGATION SHOULD HAVE DULY QUERIED
(1) Complainant claims that her sisters wanted to purchase a piece of land from Saheed Ibile’s company, and “upon request, a copy of the title document being the C-Of-O was given to them for verification.” This claim is not only fallacious but ludicrous at the same time.
No sane business person would issue you a receipt for a good or release their goods on sale to you without you making payment or at least a deposit for said goods. A land title deed can never be given to a “prospective customer” for any reason unless money has exchanged hands, either as a deposit for the land, part payment, or what-have-you.
The claim that they were given that document, then later pressured to pay N30 million by the agent, is a bogus lie because that money was initially paid as a deposit to secure the said land before any document was released to them.
These trade facts are easily verifiable, and if a thorough investigation was indeed done, this claim should have been flagged.
(2) The complainant’a account of what transpired at Ibile’s office on the night her ankle was allegedly broken by the former is terribly over-sensationalized, atrocious, and filled with several logical and even biological impossibilities!
Her “attempted murder” claims come from the events at this location, and if it is thoroughly investigated, these loopholes can be easily identified and queried.
(a) She claimed Ibile had “organized thugs in readiness to ambush them” yet further stated that it was just Ibile, the agent, and two other persons present during the meeting.
Also, she later stated that after Ibile allegedly broke her ankle and she raised the alarm, her driver, who was waiting in their vehicle parked outside, heard and rushed in to rescue her from the “organized thugs ready to ambush and kill her” and none of them could stop him from carrying her out of there as she claims. What sort of fantasy superhero movie does this woman think she’s narrating?
It might also interest you to know that, while she claims her driver, who was outside the compound, heard her cry for help and rushed in to rescue her, she also says that her mother and siblings, who were inside the office, there neither heard her cry or even know that Ibile had done anything to her there in the corridor. All these statements were made on a public Twitter Space, are duly recorded, and are readily available on demand if the need arises.
(b) She claimed to have been attacked with a “carved wooden stick” that was used to break and bloody her ankle. Upon filing a report with the police and a formal investigation being opened, has any forensic evidence been found that clearly establishes that there indeed was a carved wooden stick where she claims and that it was undoubtedly used as a weapon to attack and maim her physically?
(3) Complainant also claims that Madam Sade came to see her at the hospital and “threatened her to withdraw the case against Ibile else she won’t get her balance” and also “allegedly threatened her life by restricting her and her family from entering their residence at Amen Estate.”
These claims are not only disgusting lies but very malicious and cruelly sponsored ones, too. The verifiable truth is that she was the one who reached out to Madam Sade to intervene and mediate on the matter with Ibile, and that was all the poor woman was trying to do.
Regarding her “Amen Estate residence” claims, there was irrefutable evidence submitted and even published in the media that clearly stated and proved that Igbinoba was never denied access to her “house in Amen Estate,” as she claimed.
On the contrary, she doesn’t even own a “house” there, as her alleged property is a piece of land with an uncompleted structure. There are documents, pictures, and even video recordings to prove this if anyone wants to contest its veracity. She doesnt live in Amen Estate.
All that transpired on the day she alleges she was denied access to the estate was clearly explained, verified, and never disputed or challenged after it was published in the media with relevant documents as proof attached, even by Igbinoba herself.
Why is there now a recommendation for Madam Sade Balogun to be charged to court on the count of “conduct likely to cause a breach of peace” even after seeing and having all these facts?
Why is she being roped by the investigation team into an attempted murder charge that is utterly baseless, unfounded, and maliciously constructed against her to tarnish her image and reputation and destroy her brand?
SECTION B: CLEAR DISCREPANCIES IN THE INVESTIGATION TEAM’S FINAL REPORT AMD RECOMMENDATIONS
(1) In an inexplicable show of alarming incompetence and disregard for the legal security of the body he supposedly communicates and publicly relates for, CSP Adejobi maliciously began the title of his press release against Madam
Sade: “AMEN ESTATE CASE,” and this is the height of it. Still, it also reveals some very questionable motives.
Even a baby in Communications knows that there is a massive difference between an individual and a legally established and registered organization, as they are both separate legal entities before the law.
Please, why in God’s Holy name would a FEDERAL POLICE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER and supposed “Communications EXPERT” make such a ludicrous, unprofessional, and damaging error that has now made both him and his employers (the Nigeria Police Force) liable to a lawsuit?
Was this a mistake or a calculated attempt to damage and de-market the Amen Estates brand? Madam Sade’s ex-husband BOG has always been doing this since she opted to divorce him, and he has been recorded bragging severally about his “great influence over the Nigeria Police” and even his relationship with CSP Adejobi. So, we ask again: Was that press release headline truly a mistake or something more sinister?
Besides, what has Yinka and Ibile’s civil matter of land buying in a completely different location got to do with Amen Estate? How does this add up to anyone, please?!
(2) The complainant, in her complaint, alleges that Ibile attempted to murder her at his office, but she was lucky to have escaped with only a broken ankle. She claimed that a “carved wooden stick” was taken from the reception and allegedly used to break her ankle when he missed his initial target, which was her head. She also claimed to have been recording the breaking of her leg and has everything recorded and up till now she hasn’t provided the video. Police, where is the video and why didnt you mark it as an exhibit?
However, in the report’s submission, after listing out the alleged crimes committed, with the name of the complainant and suspects, the report clearly indicates that “no exhibit” exists in this matter to back up the grievous allegations against the suspects.
The questions now are: Was there ever a “thorough” investigation? If there was, how in God’s holy name is the alleged “carved wooden stick” not admitted as an exhibit in the case, seeing that it was the alleged weapon Ibile wanted to “murder” the plaintiff with?
What did he want to murder her with then, if there is no single exhibit or shred of concrete evidence to that effect, and why is this report recommending such a severe charge that is obviously an exaggerated and sensationalized report against him and Madam Sade, who was not even present or aware of the meeting and everything until all these things had already transpired?
(3) There has been an established pattern of names dropping of reputable police officers by certain individuals who have proven over time to be unscrupulous and shady.
Now, while the said officers cannot be blamed for the lousiness of these individuals, they can indeed be held accountable if any of their words or actions correlate with whatever their lousy associates have said about them.
Case in point: A certain Eniola Daniels, who works with The Guardian Newspapers as a reporter, has been bragging about how he “knows CSP Muyiwa Adejobi very well,” he’s like “a son” to him, and how the Police FPPRO, CSP Adejobi is “going to swing the case in their favor.” This was done publicly on a Twitter space, with several recordings.
It is also alleged that Madam Sade’s ex-husband BOG had reportedly contacted and promised the same CSP Adejobi a hefty reward from the Amen Estate Group if he could help him snatch it from the rightful owner, his ex-wife.
So, it is both alarming and shocking that the same CSP Adejobi recently published a part of the police report on his Twitter account and Facebook page, which publicly berates Madam Sade Balogun and Saheed Ibile and indites them on crimes they’re yet to be convicted of or even found guilty.
This is quite unbecoming and very unprofessional, too, and that Twitter thread ought to be deleted immediately! It is tantamount to defamation of character, and the Nigeria Police Force is liable.
(4) Is it not very unethical, too, for the Nigerian Police to issue public statements about a case that is still under investigation? Doesn’t this act compromise and could even jeopardize and negatively influence the eventual outcome of such cases?
(5) Why does it seem like there is a vendetta against Madam Sade and even Ibile because the recommendations of this report and another part their investigation should definitely be aware of but deliberately fails to mention is baffling, to say the least.
According to both parties, the matter of assault occasioning bodily harm and the outstanding part of the N30 million deposit between Ibile and Igbinoba had been amicably resolved at the police station, and both parties agreed to settle out of court.
The outstanding balance of N15 million was paid to her, and an extra N5 million was given her as compensation and damages for her injury. So, why are the recommendations to prosecute him in court still being made after he had been made to pay such an amount of money and supposedly settle out of court?
Many things do not add up about this report and the true motives of those who prepared it. At this point, it is pretty clear that the integrity of this investigation and case has been gravely compromised.
Unless this is genuinely a witch-hunt and an attempt to subvert justice and abuse power, the only fair and honorable thing to do is to order a complete re-investigation/probe into the case.
And, if such a shoddy, lackluster, inept, and absolutely disgraceful charade is what CSP Adejobi proudly referred to as an investigation that “shows clearly that the Police carried out a laudable investigation worthy of commendation in the absence of sentiments,” then we are truly afraid for our country Nigeria, and the definition of “truth and justice” in her!
We humbly request that your office look into this matter and expedite speedy action on it immediately, please.
Also, anyone guilty of supplying false and misleading information to the police must be thoroughly dealt with as a deterrence to others in society.
Thank you very much.
SIGNED:
Dr. Sandra C Duru
President, TUFF | WENETLY LEADERS CONNECT
