Policemen from Zone 2 command, Onikan,
Lagos, have arrested two persons who
allegedly posed as daughter to former
President Olusegun Obasanjo and an
intelligence officer respectively, to Senator
Buruji Kashamu, with a plan to poison the
former President.
The suspects identified as Peter Uwakala
and Victoria Alaegbu, it was gathered,
were arrested following a complaint by
Kashamu at Zone 2, last month.
The suspects, it was gathered, met with
Kashamu at a hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos,
on May 8, 2015,where they allegedly called
the former presidents unprintable names and
offered to poison him. In response to the
complaint lodged by Kashamu, the command
reportedly swung into action and arrested the
suspects.
According to a police report obtained by our
correspondent: “The fact of the case was that
the complainant alleged in his verbal
complaint that the duo of Peter Uwakala and
Victoria Alaegbu falsely represented
themselves as an intelligence officer and
daughter to the former President Obasanjo
respectively to him under the pretence that
they were going to resolve the political rift
between him and Obasanjo.
“He stressed that the duo met with him at a
hotel, where the latter who had collected
N500,000 from his younger brother, made
some uncomplimentary and derogatory
remarks about the former president, while the
former introduced herself as Yetunde
Obsandjo to him. He added that he had to
report to the police upon his suspicion of foul
play by the suspects. “Investigation conducted
revealed that the duo were impersonators.
From the foregoing, it was established that
both Peter Uwakala and Victoria Alaegbu
actually committed the offences alleged by
the complainant and have been charged
accordingly in line with the prescription of the
law.
“The suspects were arraigned before Chief
Magistrate Adeola Adedayo at the Igbosere
Magistrate Court, Lagos on June 5, 2015 and
were remanded at Kirikiri Prisons. The matter
was adjourned to July 31, 2015.” It was
gathered that Kashamu’s gesture of reporting
the matter to the police in spite of their
political differences made Obasanjo to say he
had forgiven Kashamu of any grudge he had
against him.
It was gathered that the rapprochement led
to Kashamu withdrawing the N20billion libel
suit against Obasanjo.