A onetime unit accountant at the Strategic Business Unit of the Covenant University, Sango-Ota, Ogun State, Omoyele Oyetomi, has accused the Zonal Deputy Commissioner of Police, Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Zone 2, Aliyu Garba, of refusing to sign the report of the investigation into his arrest and detention for fraud.

The fraud was allegedly committed by one Ayo in the banking hall of Covenant Microfinance Bank, in the Sango-Ota area of Ogun State.

It had reported that Oyetomi, who was arrested and detained for acknowledging the greetings of the said Ayo in the banking hall on Friday, July 21, 2017, is seeking redress for the incident that has allegedly made his life miserable.

It was also reported that Oyetomi, who was sacked by his employers as a result of the incident, said he had lost several opportunities to get another job due to the fraud case, adding that efforts to get a report on the conclusion of the investigation conducted by operatives of the Zone 2 Command so as to clear his name had proved abortive.

The 41-year-old said he had met with Garba regarding the report of the investigation on four different occasions, adding that the times the Investigative Police Officer in charge of the case presented his case file to the DCP; he allegedly refused to sign it.

Oyetomi stated, “I have gone to the Zone 2 four different times; the last time I was there was on Tuesday, December 11, 2018, but they refused to release or sign the report. I even met with the Public Relations Officer, Dolapo Badmus, who called the IPO and told him to release the report. But I learnt that Badmus cannot instruct the deputy commissioner to sign the document because he is her superior.

“I have met with Garba about four times, but he has refused to sign the report. Whenever I saw him regarding my matter, he would instruct me to call the IPO, and whenever the IPO presented my case file to him, he would refuse to sign it; I can say it before him.”

Oyetomi said a retired Commissioner of Police, whom he met during his visits to the Zone 2 Command, Onikan, Lagos, had advised him to sue the command for refusing to provide the report on the conclusion of their investigation into his case.

The father of three added, “Fortunately, I met one retired Commissioner of Police, who was aware of the case, and what he told me was that if he was still in service, he would never have given me that report. He said the police would never give me the report, because they would be afraid of being sued for their negligence.

“He advised me not to worry about the report and that I should approach the court and sue the command, and that the court will compel it to provide the report. He had met with my IPO and discovered that I was not indicted in any form and that was why he said if they give me the report, I was likely going to sue them and it would tarnish their image.”