The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu on Thursday, asked the Federal High Court,Abuja, to allow the police to investigate a former Minister of State for Education,Olorugun Kenneth Gbagi over alleged staff molestation
Gbagi was alleged to have ordered four of his staff to be stripped naked and photographed over a theft case at his hotel, Signatious Hotel in Effurun, Delta State.
On September 30,2020, Gbagi filed a fundamental Rights application before Justice Taiwo Taiwo, seeking an order to restrain the IG and others from arresting or detaining him over the matter.
He listed the I- G, the Delta Commissioner of Police,Hafix Inuwa and Attorney General of Delta as 1st – 4th. respondents.
The Police in a counter affidavit said that based on petitions before it,it was duty bound to invite Gbagi to answer questions on the allegations.
The affidavit filed by counsel to the I-G and Delta State Commissioner of Police,Lukman O. Fagbemi, said the grounds and main complaint in the petitions against the applicant centres on allegation of molestation and dehumanization of his three innocent female and one male staff he allegedly ordered to be stripped naked and photographed by his son Master Egba Gbagi, under the direct supervision of the applicant.
According to the police counsel, the said petition further alleged that the applicant in this case directed his son to post the said nude picture in Internet after same had been taken by his son which he did by molesting and dehumanizing the person of those male and female staff. The copy of the said picture is attached as Exhibit B”
The lawyer dismissed Gbagi’s claim that the police were trying to arrest,detain and subject him to inhumane treatment, pointing out that he “is only needed for the Investigation of those petitions written against him.”
The Judge therefore adjourned the matter until March 11 for hearing.
