The Nigerian Police has confirm inviting Busola Dakolo and her husband Timi Dakolo over the alleged rape allegation levelled against the senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) Pastor Fatoyinbo.
The Police in a statement released on Sunday 21st July 2019 reassures Nigerians of the force commitment to justice. The statement released reads:
“The Nigeria Police Force is confirming that its operatives today, 20th July, 2019 served official Invitation Letters on Bisola and Timi Dakolo.
It is important however to note that a Police Invitation Letter is not synonymous with a Warrant of Arrest, and must not be construed to be one. Rather, it is a polite investigative tool used in eliciting information voluntarily from parties to aid police investigations
Members of the public should see it as a legitimate act in line with the constitutional mandate of the police, which among other things include the investigation of all complaints brought before it.
The Inspector General of Police, IGP MA Adamu NPM, mni has appealed for calm, and is reassuring Nigerians that the Police Force under his watch will remain professional, impartial and unreservedly committed to the pursuit of justice in this case and all other cases before it”.
The arrest or invitation has been condemned by most Nigerians and even the first lady, as they accused the Police of allowing itself of being used as a tool by the accused pastor to allegedly intimidate his alleged rape victims.
The Police are also alleged to be relying on reports by bloggers and interview granted on TV stations to effect the arrest of the couple, rather than an independent investigations of their own on the issue.
Meanwhile, the husband to Busola Dakolo, Timi Dakolo who was also invited by the Police, had on Saturday raised the alarm that some armed men had stormed their house to effect their arrest, as he vows to fight to the end and by the side of his wife.
In a short post on his Instagram account on Saturday, he reacted to the invasion of his home by the Police Rapid Respond Squad with this post:
“Our lawyers had told us to get ready for this letter.
We have long been ready for this type of institutionalized intimidation and dirtiness. Investigating officials have frustrated as a result of underhand delay? Dirty bloggers are fabricating things that cover the truth , going to the IG’s people under dark to force this case to be posted to Abuja? Now this: a false investigation in Abuja when our own petition filed since June has not been answered and NO INVITATION HAS BEEN MADE TO THE ACCUSED IN A RAPE CASE????! NOT ONE MOVEMENT TOWARDS JUSTICE??? Rubbishing the legal and criminal system ?
And sending a bus load of questionable armed “policemen” and shady men lying in wait to intimidate my wife and children today, forcing their way into my home? Is that how the REAL police delivers a letter ? This is best you can do? This is why all the hurting women and families havent come out with HORRIBLE THINGS DONE TO THEM???!!
You picked the wrong one and you picked the wrong time. Nigerians are more awake than you think .
I will fight for my wife and my children -it’s the promise I made with my life and one I intend to keep .I will defend them from the unrelenting attack of a weak man who thinks he can use money and power to cover for all of his crimes.
Like I said ,we have since been ready .
GIVE US THE FIRE, THEN WATCH ME WORK!” he said.
Evidence of the police invitation letter inviting Busola Dakolo his wife and himself:
