The lawyer to popular musician, Daniel Oladapo, also known as D’Banj, has called for his release from the custody of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission.
According to information gathered from Punch, D’Banj was innocent of the allegations of fund diversion that trailed him regarding the social empowerment programme.
He demanded that the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs make public the names of government officials involved in the alleged fraud.
The Managing Partner at Law Corridor sought the release of the singer after he spent 48 hours in jail.
It has become necessary in the interest of justice and for public record to make known the following facts with regard to the false allegation against Mr. Daniel Oladapo.
The investigators of the Commission thoroughly examined D’banj’s honest and straightforward answers to all its inquiries to the mutual satisfaction of the Commission and his legal representatives.
The lawyer said that D’banj cooperated with the Commission in the course of their investigation and that he was interested in clearing his name as well.
The Chairman of the Commission was required to sign off on his immediate release before it could be effected.
We waited for the approval from above to give D’banj the required legal representation, but it never came.
We want to assure the general public and the Commission that we are fully ready and willing to cooperate, even though we hold on to the hope that D’banj will not become the victim of targeted blackmail or faceless malice from certain quarters with perhaps vested interest in his downfall.
D’Banj’s lawyer wanted the names of government officials involved in colluding with the singer to perpetuate the alleged fraud.
We reiterate that D’banj does not have access or colluded with any government officials over dubious transactions.
We want the oversight Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs to make public the names of the government officials that are alleged to have colluded with D’banj.
We want the oversight Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs to make public the names of the government officials that are alleged to have colluded with D’banj.
We call on the National Assembly’s Public Account Committee to open a wide investigation into the N-Power scheme through an open and all-free entry public hearing without protecting any sacred cows.
It is alarming and incongruous to make such an allegation against D’banj, who does not have access to government accounts or government platforms, to have been alleged to have diverted such huge sums without any government official in custody with him.
It is alarming and incongruous to make such an allegation against D’banj, who does not have access to government accounts or government platforms, to have been alleged to have diverted such huge sums without any government official in custody with him.
The Commission is headed by a Professor of Law and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria who we believes in the principle that an accused is innocent until proven guilty.
We encourage the Commission to have D’banj brought before a competent court with the necessary charges forthwith or duly release him, as it is to this end that we implore the Commission to be aware of having detained D’banj beyond the constitutionally allowed limits without a been charge made.
D’banj is innocent of all the laughable allegations and has demonstrated patriotism by encouraging the Commission and such an act in good faith must not be unfairly rewarded.
