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08.12.2023 Featured Court Rules in Favour of Woman Harassed by Police in Hospital Bed

Published 8th Dec, 2023

By Joseph Adeiye

The High Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has ruled in favour of Adeyinka Igbinoba, who was harassed by police officers in 2022 while in a hospital bed.

FIJ had reported in October 2022 how officers of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team refused to leave her bedside after she had a N30 million land purchase dispute with Saheed Mosadoluwa, the Lagos property agent who owns Harmony Garden and Estate Development Limited.

In the court’s judgment, Honourable Justice Coker ordered the defendants to desist from contacting Igbinoba. Coker also ordered a N500,000 payment to Igbinoba.

READ MORE: Police Harass Woman on Her Hospital Bed ‘On DIG Johnson Kokumo’s Orders’ Over Land Dispute

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“The matter came up yesterday, the 7th day of December, for final judgment. Accordingly, from all that we applied, the police, Mr Saheed Ibile, and Sade Gbadamosi got a prohibition,” Lucky Erarume, Igbinoba’s lawyer, told FIJ on Friday.

“The respondents have been prohibited from harassing the applicant, Mrs Adeyinka Igbinoba. The cost of half a million naira was awarded to [Igbinoba] against the respondents. We will wait for another 14 or 21 days. If they refuse to pay the damages, we will enforce an order to get the damages.

“Our application before the court was that it was Ibile and Sade that orchestrated the move by the police to go ahead and harass Mrs Igbinoba. If not for their petitions, concocted, spurious and unwarranted complaints that were baseless, the police would not have taken action. But the police also went out of the scope of their duty to storm a hospital where someone was being treated; it’s not that the person was on the run. They went to cause commotion in order to scare her.

“We have our laws in this country and anyone who infracts such laws should not be spared.”

READ ALSO: VIDEO: Notorious Saheed ‘Ibile’ Mosadoluwa Employs Lagos Police to Brutalise, Strip Land Owner Naked

The respondents in this suit were the Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police FCIID, CP Kolo Yusuf of SWAT, Saheed Mosadioluwa (AKA Ibile) and Folashade Gbadamosi-Balogun.

A N30 million land purchase dispute with Mosadioluwa led to a court case between Igbinoba and Ibile. Ibile had since harassed Igbinoba in different ways.

FIJ obtained pictures and videos of Igbinoba’s smashed ankle as she was about to undergo an urgent surgery on November 21, 2021. She was recovering after a visit to the hospital when officers of the SWAT team invaded her space.

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Published 8th Dec, 2023

By Joseph Adeiye

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