Tagbo: Davido’s story, by lawyer

The Police in Lagos State have concluded arrangements to transfer the case involving Afro hip-hop artiste, David Davido Adeleke, over the death of his friends, to State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID, for further investigations.

Meanwhile, Davido, yesterday, released a statement, stating that late Tagbo never entered his car. He also released CCTV footages of the night’s events.

This is as facts emerged that the music star was not detained after his interrogation by the Police.

Tagbo Umeike, DJ Olu and Davido
Police sources revealed that he was allowed to go home after the interrogation, which lasted for some hours. However, other suspects in the case were said to still be in Police custody, pending the completion of the process of transfer and other requirements that will aid detectives in their investigations.

It was also learned that Davido was advised to make himself available any time his attention was needed, a request he freely consented to.

The sources further revealed that detectives are making frantic efforts to unravel the mystery surrounding the death of two other friends of the music star, Olugbenga Abiodun (DJ Olu), son of oil magnate and Chime Amechina, inside a white-coloured BMW car with number plates KJA 631 AY at an underground garage in Banana Island, Ocean Parade, Ikoyi.

According to sources, “we are also looking into the veracity of strange findings inside the car where the two died.

“We have made contacts with the necessary departments and as soon as they send their reports to us, we will then be in a position to comment freely on the issue.

“I assure you that we will not relent in prosecuting anybody involved in the case whether highly or lowly placed.”

Davido mourns DJ Olu

Meanwhile, as DJ Olu was being laid to rest, yesterday, at Ikoyi Cemetery, Davido mourned him: “Rest on soldier. Love you forever and ever. Till we meet again! Imma conquer the world for you lil bro… I promise! (sic).”

Davido’s story—Lawyer

The statement by Davido’s lawyer, Norrison Quakers (SAN), entitled The Unfortunate Death of Tagbo Umeike; Davido’s Story, read: “Our attention as solicitors to Mr. David Adeleke aka Davido, has been drawn to statements and comments both on the social, electronic and print media including but not limited to a very recent publication by national daily, wherein various statements credited to the Acting Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Mr. Edgal Imohimi, insinuating inter alia that our client has a case to answer in the unfortunate demise of one Mr. Tagbo Umeike.

“The said publications have all caused our client; Mr. David Adeleke (otherwise known as Davido), a lot of undue embarrassment thus necessitating the need to present the facts as they stand, since the unfortunate incidence is now in the public domain.

“First of all we wish to state that our client was never arrested but rather made himself available to assist the police in its investigation and after a satisfactory explanation, he was allowed to go.

“It is imperative to state that the evidence and footage available to the Police discloses the chain of events leading to the discovery of the remains of Mr. Tagbo Umeike do not in any way incriminate our Client, but rather absolves him of any criminal culpability; a fact that the Police is aware of.

“For the records, we wish to state that our Client has not been found culpable for the death of Mr. TagboUmeike, and this was earlier communicated by the police in a closed meeting involving the Acting Commissioner of Police, Lagos, Davido, the family of the deceased and one Caroline Danjuma who claims to be girlfriend of the deceased.

“Our client was also not involved in the untimely death of the deceased, nor did he give any instructions to anyone to ‘dump’ the corpse of Mr. TagboUmeike anywhere. Further, and as a matter of fact, we wish to state that the deceased did not step a foot, even for a second, in any of our Client’s vehicles on the evening o