Lagos Businessman Petitions Inspector-General Egbetokun After Fakorede, IGP Monitoring Unit Compromised, Secretly Released Case Files To Ex-Governor Oyinlola

A Lagos-based businessman, Adeolu Oyinlola, has petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, and the Chairman of the Police Service Commission (PSC), accusing a senior police officer, Commissioner of Police (CP) Akin Fakorede, of compromising and unlawfully releasing confidential police documents of his case to a suspect in a case involving an alleged threat to his life and fraud.

Oyinlola said the documents allegedly leaked to the suspect who is also a former governor, in his case included the administrative copy of his petition filed on February 4, 2025, and the statement made by the suspect, identified as Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, during the police investigation.

In the petition, he wrote, “I submitted, through my lawyers, a petition dated 4th February, 2025, in respect of a case of threat to my life by Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and for obtaining property worth US$150,000 from me by false pretence.”

He said the matter was assigned to the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit, led by CP Fakorede, who, according to him, took personal charge of the investigation and reached the conclusion that the suspect had no case to answer. 

Oyinlola added, “I registered my displeasure with the conclusion arrived at by DCP Akin Fakorede in the course of his investigation of the aforementioned petition in a correspondence of the 21st March, 2025, wherein my lawyers highlighted our misgivings with the said investigation and further requested that certified true copies of the statements made to the Police by the Complainant and the Suspect be released to me.” 

He said the police had not released the requested documents to him, yet he stumbled on photocopies of both the police-minuted administrative copy of his petition and the suspect’s statement being circulated by the suspect to some members of the public in his hometown, Okuku, Osun State.

“Till date, I have not received the said statements from the Police. To my consternation, I stumbled on photocopies of the Police administrative copy of my petition, minuted on by the Police, as well as Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola's statement, dated 10th March, 2025, in respect of our petition of 4th February, 2025, being circulated by the Suspect (for reasons best known to him) to some members of the public in our hometown, Okuku, Osun State,” Oyinlola stated. 

According to him, “The referenced Police administrative copy of my petition and Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola's statement to the Police were not certified. 

“This means that the Inspector General of Police Monitoring Unit, headed by CP Akin Fakorede, made photocopies of the said documents and clandestinely released them to the Suspect without certification.”

He further alleged that the petition had been altered before it was released, stating, “To underscore my misgivings, the petition marked Annexure "A" was tampered with to produce the petition in Annexure "C" (which was released to Suspect), as evidenced in the change of position, as well as the design, of the acknowledgement stamp of the IGP's secretariat on one and the same document.”

Oyinlola also pointed to visible signs of document manipulation. 

“Furthermore, the use of Tippex correction fluid on the referenced document clearly indicates untoward tampering,” he said.

The petitioner is now calling for a full investigation into CP Fakorede’s handling of the matter. 

“I hereby restate my earlier demand for the said CP Akin Fakorede to be investigated for the perfunctory, not to say intentionally shoddy, manner my petition dated 4th February, 2025, was handled.” 

He also renewed his request for the police to provide him with the certified copies of the statements he and the suspect made to enable him to pursue legal action. 

“I further demand that the police release to me, certified copies of the statements made to the Police by my humble self and Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, so that I can "seek civil remedy" in accordance with the unsolicited advice of CP Akin Fakorede when he was dismissing my petition,” Oyinlola said.