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SFU Ignores Court Order To Return Seized Vehicle To Owner by GhaliNaaba(m): 12:03am On Dec 18, 2018 |
SFU ignores court order to return seized
vehicle to owner
Published December 17, 2018
• The seized bus
• Bus on auction list – Source
Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe
A 39-year-old man, Abimbola Adesiyan, has
accused the officers attached to the police
Special Fraud Unit of disobeying a court
judgement ordering the return of his vehicle.
Adesiyan also accused the officers of
planning to auction the vehicle despite the
court judgement.
According to him, the officers arrested him
at his apartment on May 22, 2012, and
subsequently impounded his Dodge Ram bus
on the instruction of his ex-lover, who is
based in the United States.
Adesiyan, who stated that he was the one
who gave his estranged lover money to
purchase the bus, said the police claimed
that he converted her vehicle to his own
personal use.
The Oyo State indigene said trouble started
when his ex-lover told him to leave his wife
in order to marry her, which he said he
refused.
He added that while he was at the station,
whenever the police put a call across to his
ex-lover, she would cut off the line
immediately she heard his voice.
He added that when the police refused to
return his vehicle or charge him to court for
the alleged conversion of the vehicle to his
personal use, he filed a suit before a Lagos
State High Court in Igbosere seeking the
order of the court to direct the police to
return his vehicle to him, which he noted
was already depreciating in value and in
physical appearance in their custody.
Adesiyan said the Commissioner of Police,
who was the respondent in the suit, did not
appear before the court.
He stated, “I met the lady on Facebook and
she told me that her husband was dead; and
from there, we started talking and I
introduced her to my wife. Our relationship
later became intimate; there was a time I
wanted to go to Cotonou to buy a car to use
for car hire service at the airport and I
informed her, but she advised me that
instead of going to Cotonou, I should send
the money to her and she would help me to
buy an auctioned vehicle in the US.
“As of then, I did not have a domiciliary
account; so, she sent someone’s account
number and I sent the money to the person.
I sent over N1,080,000 to the person and
she bought the vehicle. When she was
coming to Nigeria, she came with the vehicle
documents and my former church member
cleared the bus for me.
“Throughout the period she was in Nigeria, I
was with her till she left. Not up to a month
after she got back to the US, she said she
wanted to come back because of me, but I
told her not to because I am married and
that was the genesis of our fight; she started
threatening me that my wife must go.”
Adesiyan added, “I was in my house at
Sango Ota, Ogun State, when the police
came to arrest me and took the bus along;
when we got to the station, I was told that I
had been accused of illegal conversion of the
vehicle. They claimed that I helped the
woman cleared the vehicle at the port and
that after clearing, I converted it to my
personal use.
“They also alleged that I was a clearing and
forwarding agent, but I told them that I was
not a clearing agent and I told them where I
worked, which they later confirmed. The
woman later sent someone to tell me that I
should go and collect my vehicle from the
police, but I said the police would not give it
to me if she did not call them.
“After the back and forth, I told the police to
charge me to court if they were convinced
that I had committed an offence, but they
didn’t charge me; so, I approached the state
High Court challenging the authority of the
police to seize my bus and I got a judgement
against the police ordering them to return
my vehicle, but the police have refused to
return it. The vehicle is there at the SFU in
Milverton Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, depreciating.
“An officer at the unit told me that they
wanted to auction the bus and I told him
that there was a judgement on the vehicle
and I gave him a copy of the court
judgement.”
The certified true copy of the judgment
delivered by Justice Harrison on February 5,
2018, which was made available to our
correspondent, showed the order of the
court directing the police to return the
vehicle to Adesiyan.
The judgment read in part, “There is no
pending trial in respect of the vehicle and
the applicant presented documentary
evidence to show proof of ownership and all
the averments were incontrovertible.
“Originating motion succeeds and the court
orders that the respondent is hereby
ordered to release the vehicle, Dodge Ram
bus, with chassis number 553582 and VIN
number 2B4HP15XB1K553582, currently in
the respondent’s custody on bond to the
applicant herein forthwith.
“It is further ordered that the applicant shall
produce the vehicle at any time it is required
by the respondent.”
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer,
SFU, Lawal Audu, said he was not aware of
the matter and advised Adesiyan to come to
the unit to identify the Investigating Police
Officer and necessary action would be taken.
He said, “From what I have been able to
gather, I learnt that when he came to the
SFU, he was told to provide the names of
the officers who participated in the
investigation so that they could trace the
case file and get the vehicle released from
the exhibit keeper. The exhibit keeper is not
in charge of vehicle auction; he does not
have the power to auction vehicles.
“We need to know the name of the IPO so
that we can get the file. Let him come and
tell us the name of the IPO in charge of the
case, and I will look at the court order he
brought and verify if it is genuine or not; if it
is genuine, the vehicle will be released to
him.”
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