Watch As Lagos Police Commissioner's Full Address to the Press On Tagbo's Death.
The Lagos State Police Command has revealed why Davido was
re-invited for questioning over the death of one of his friends, Tagbo
Umeike.
This comes a few weeks after Tagbo died at a bar in Lagos while his
corpse was reportedly dumped at the premises of the General Hospital,
Lagos Island.
Acting Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Imohimi Edgar, told
reporters at a press briefing on Wednesday that the result of the
investigations carried out by the police contradicted Davido’s claims on
the death of his friend.
Recalling how it happened, Edgar said, “On September 3, 2017,
at about 0920hrs, the Chief Security Officer of General Hospital, Lagos,
one Oparanti Moshood, alleged and alerted the DPO (Lion Building) that
an unidentified male was brought in dead (BID) in an ash colour Toyota
Camry saloon car with identification number LSD 738 El.
“The victim was alleged to have been brought in by two
unidentified males. The DPO Lion Building who raced to the scene was
able to identify the victim as one Tagbo Umeike from the international
passport found in the victim’s vehicle.
“Shortly, thereafter, you are all aware that one Caroline
Danjuma, an actress and the victim’s fiancé, published on her Instagram
page that her boyfriend died in the company of friends amongst whom was
one David Adeleke, a.k.a Davido.”
The Police Commissioner said he consequently convened a
pre-investigation meeting which was attended by family and friends of
the deceased, his girlfriend and Davido, as well as the DPO Lion
Building and other investigating police officers.
According to him, the meeting confirmed that the deceased had
drinks with friends at a bar, including Davido while the bartender who
served them the drinks “confirmed that the deceased had as much as 40 tucks of tequila and exhibited clear signs of drunkenness.”
Edgar further said, “The CCTV footage which I called for from
the bar also showed that the deceased was quarrelsome and even violent.
In that same meeting, Davido confirmed that he left Shisha Bar without
the deceased to a nightclub known as DNA in Victoria Island; he stated
that he was only informed by some mutual friends of the victim’s death
at DNA club.”
He, however, said investigation conducted into the incident
revealed that one Tunde Yusufu who supposedly drives Davido’s escort
vehicle, accompanied by one Agbaje Olaoye and one Idris Busari – both
Davido’s friends, “took the deceased to General Hospital, Lagos Island and abandoned him in his vehicle on the instructions of the singer.”
He also said the CCTV footage at the hospital captured the entire
activities and that the vehicle was subsequently recovered from Davido’s
residence.
“These new revelations completely debunk Davido’s claims that
he did not know how the deceased got to General Hospital, Lagos. For
this reason, I have instructed the DPO Lion Building and the
investigating team to again invite Davido and question him in line with
these new findings.
“It is our intention to know why the victim was taken to
General Hospital, Lagos dumped and those who took him there fled the
location without as much as notifying the hospital authorities or
reporting to the police; that calls for questioning.
“As I speak to you, Davido has been invited for questioning and
is currently with the DPO Lion Building and the investigating team.
Autopsy has been conducted and the preliminary interim autopsy report
reveals that the victim died of ‘asphyxia’ which in layman’s term means
suffocation.
"At the end of this fresh round of investigations, I will again let Lagosians known about our findings”, the Police Commissioner added.
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