BABA IJESHA: ACTOR, YOMI FABIYI AND OTHERS STORM PANTI WITH PROTESTS AS RAMINBA DEMANDS HIS BAIL

 

THE SQUIB gathered that Nollywood actor,  Yomi Fabiyi and others stormed the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) of the Lagos State Command of the Nigeria  Police Force to demand the release of Omiyinka Olarenwaju, popularly known as "Baba Ijesha".

It will be recalled that 

 Olanrewaju Omiyinka, aka Baba Ijesha, a popular Nollywood actor  is being detained for  molesting a minor. The Ministry of Justice has also issued a legal advice upon which Baba Ijesha will be prosecuted. 

However, THE SQUIB gathered that the Lagos State Police Command has been utilising the ongoing indefinite nationwide strike as an excuse for not granting bail to him.

THE SQUIB also gathered that during the protest, Yomi  Fabiyi and other protesters marched from Casino Bus Stop to Panti Police Station on Wednesday.

They demanded that Baba Ijesha should be released from detention on bail  pending his prosecution in  court.

The protesters carried placards and banners with various inscriptions such as ‘denial of bail of bail of bailable offence is human rights violation’, ‘Nigeria police, please allow the law to dictate to you, not Iyabo Ojo, Princess and co’, ‘release Baba Ijesha’, and ‘Nigeria police must respect human rights and honour bail for bailable offence’.

Fabiyi, who has been supportive of Baba Ijesha, described the continuous detention of Baba Ijesha as “illegal”.

It will be recalled that the duo of Iyabo Ojo , another Nollywood actress and Princess, the complaint led others in protest to State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department ( SCIID) to oppose the earlier attempt of the Police to release Baba Ijesha.

In a related development, the Radical Agenda Movement of the Nigerian Bar Association has also demanded the release of the actor. In a live Facebook telecast by Adesina Ogunlana, the Chairman of the Radical Agenda Movement in the Nigerian Bar Association (RAMINBA) today, 13th May, 2021, he expressed the fact that the organisation had earlier written the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID)  demanding the bail of the actor. He said this was done after consultation with Baba Ijesha himself , who referred the organisation to his counsel, Mr. Olu Akande. He said Mr. Olu Akande and Yomi Fabiyi are currently in touch with RAMINBA , arising from today's protest to demand the release of the actor.

He condemned the continuous detention of the actor on the ground of the ongoing nationwide indefinite strike of the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria and called his release on bail as the offences with which he is to be charged in his legal advice are bailable offences.