The news broke early this morning that human rights lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi has been abducted.
CKNNEWS learnt that Dele was abducted by plain cloth policemen and taken away from his office in Lekki Phase 1 ,Lagos on Tuesday.
The human rights lawyer had earlier posted on his social media handles that a powerful lawyer from the South West was after his life.
He went further to claim in the three page statement that the lawyer through his proxies has tried everything humanly possible to lure him into being arrested through the Police Command in Ekiti
While Mr Farotimi claimed that he was invited few days back through another petition written by the lawyers of UBA Chairman, Tony Elumelu who accused him of defamation, he said he was eventually released same day by Police on self recognition and that was the end of that incident.
CKNNews can authoritavely confirm that Dele Farotimi’s latest arrest or abduction has nothing to do with Tony Elumelu.
Our investigation has shown that he was arrested based on a petition to the Police by Mr Afe Babalola SAN.
After his arrest on Tuesday we learnt he is being ferried out of Lagos to an unknown destination which some people believe may be Ekiti State.
As at 2pm , he was tracked to somewhere outside Lagos probably on his way to Ekiti as suspected.
Most of his friends and colleagues are raising a lot anxiety over his safety
CKNNews check gathered that the senior citizen, influential lawyer is not happy with some of the things Farotimi said about him and is ready to take his full pound of flesh
Many Nigerians have taken to social media to condemn the manner of his arrest, calling for his immediate release or worse case scenerio charged to court
All attempts to get the reaction of the spokesman of the Nigerian Police ACP Adejobi Olumuyiwa has been unsuccessful
The Lagos State Police Command have not also issued a statement on the incident as at the time of this report
This was Dele Farotimi’s earlier post on Tuesday over threat to his life by a senior lawyer.
