The estate association said the latest victim of Chief Tosan at Dobys Haven Estate is Greg Odutayo. He was arrested by the police on a trumped up claim made by Chief Tosan.
Formerly with NTA, Greg Odutayo is a leading producer / director and the owner and Managing Director of Royal Roots, a television content creation and production company with subsidiaries in Ghana and South Africa.
But last Monday following alleged frivolous petition authored by Chief Tosan, police picked him up for allegedly stealing a 350 KVA generator set belonging to the estate and detained him for 24-hour.
In the petition made available to newsmen and submitted at Zone 2, Onikan, Chief Tosan claims that Mr. Odutayo who is the first person to take up residence in the estate, and the pioneer secretary of the estate’s residents association stole the estate’s generator set.
Consequently, he was arrested in his office at Ikeja, and detained till the following day as several appeals for bail on self-recognition ground allegedly fell on Zone 2 Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Adebowale Lawal’s deaf ears.
It said Chief Tosan was Chairman of the estate association then and she supervised the spending of the N2m, which was used to buy a 13 KVA generator set that is currently being used to power common areas like streetlight and water borehole.
The statement read in part: “There was an Estate Resolution to sell the Estate Generator to any willing buyer at a resident association meeting. This decision was prompted by the high maintenance cost of the generator.
“The exco members were mandated to dispose of the generator accordingly. Subsequently, at another meeting of the Estate, the EXCO presented amongst others the cheering news that the generator has been sold for the sum of N2.0million.
“The sale decision was applauded by members present at the meeting, especially as the proceeds was going to be utilized in the execution of certain urgent projects in the Estate.
“Let us reiterate that it was the collective decision of the Estate Association to dispose the Estate Generator to any ready and willing buyer including members. May we also state here that there were two quotes received for the sale of the generator from residents, the quotes were: N1.7Million naira by another resident and N2 Million naira by the final buyer.
“As stated earlier, Mr. Greg Odutayo was one of the first occupant and a House owner in the Estate. He has served the Estate in the past in various capacity meritoriously and without blemish. Every member of the Estate can readily attest to this and he is well respected in the community.”
Sharing their ordeals in the hand of the accused, the incumbent chairman of the residents association of Dobys Haven Estate, an estate with a large population of business owners and captains of industry, including celebrities like Nollywood actress, Stephanie Okereke, Mr. Lakin Soleye, said,
“This is a grand abuse of power and affiliation with police. It is completely unacceptable that Odutayo was picked up. It is absurd that 18 months after the generator set was sold to him, she wrote to the police that it suddenly disappeared.
“Greg Odutayo is one of the respected and senior members of the estate, and we are saying she cannot do that to him. It means anybody can be arrested for anything. Zone 2 is in Onikan and we have Ajah Police Station here. How come she didn’t report the case at Ajah. This is not the police the Inspector General is preaching every day. At every argument she brings in police.”
The association’s secretary, Awe Joseph, said the whole scheme leading to Odutayo’s arrest smacked of deception and fraud.
“She used the association’s letterhead to write a frivolous petition that was not authorised by the exco in her personal capacity .The Inspector General of Police must call her to order. If she cannot live with the civilians, she should go to the barrack. She said she doesn’t care about our own women, and children, when we told her that by withdrawing the spy police she was exposing us to armed robbery attacks. We pay their salaries as an association.”
On his part, her victim, Odutayo said he will seek all legal means to seek redress of an infringement of his right to fair hearing by the police, and the harm he suffered from the defamation of character .
As at the time of going to press,CKN News has not been able to reach Mrs Tosan for her own side of the story.All attempt to reach her has been futile.When we do it,we ll publish same.
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