Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, a senior Advocate of Nigeria and counsel to embattled singer Seun Kuti, has accused the police of maltr£ating his client who was detained for a§§aulting a police officer.
Speaking in a statement on Tuesday, May 16, the lawyer accused the police of st@rving his client over his refusal to volunteer his statement.
Recall that Kuti had on Monday surrendered himself to the police in Lagos after a video surfaced showing him a§§aulting a police officer on Third Mainland bridge.
The lawyer said his client declined to give a written report of the altercation with the police officer because the police had published their findings on the matter without his input.
According to him, “Mr. Benjamin Hundeyin who goes by the formal title of Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer but doubles as the Investigating Police Officer into the case of alleged a§§ault of a policeman by my client, Mr. Seun Kuti and issuing a report of his investigative work.
Mr Seun Kuti would have expected that having completed his investigative work, Mr. Benjamin Hundeyin, a law enforcer, would proceed according to law by sending the file containing his report of investigation for legal evaluation towards possible prosecution.
Mr. Seun Kuti is nevertheless not surprised that Mr. Benjamin Hundeyin chose instead to make his investigative report the subject of media publication, as for instance, in the Punch online publication of Monday May 15, 2023 titled “A§§ault: Seun Kuti apologised, gave cop ₦12,000 to repair vehicle, police say”.
According to Mr. Benjamin Hundeyin, in his investigative report handed over to The Punch, Seun Kuti was the one that ba§hed the officer’s vehicle, and the policeman followed him to call his attention to it, but the musician alighted from his car and sl@pped the policeman as seen in the trending video. However, the officer reported the incident at the Police Command in Ikeja…(continue reading from NEXT slide)
