Joseph Chibi
Allegations by social media infleuncer, Martins Vincent Otse alias VeryDarkBlackman (VDM) that Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Olohundare Moshood Jimoh framed businessman Hammeed Tajudeen Akanbi for double murders in order to takeover a land in Victora Garden City (VGC) area,are untrue, concocted and baseless.
Documents obtained at the weekend showed that policemen deployed to the said property where on lawful enforcement of law and order following series of petitions to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Lagos State Police Commissioner written by the Developers (names withheld) who are the owners of the properties.
In January they sent petitions to the Lagos Police Commissioner (Jimoh headed that office at the time) requesting police protection and also alleging threats to their life and criminal breach of trust, fraudulent extortion, among others.
In the petitions written through their lawyers, and dated December 5, 2025 (to the IGP), and January 20, 2026 (to Lagos Police Commissioner), the complainants stated that they hold Contract of Sale and Lagos State Government Consent establishing their ownership of the property, following a 2022 settlement with the land’s original owners.
The petitions stated that Akanbi, who first presented himself to the complainants in 2019 as a land consultant, snatched from them over 40 plots across Orchid Road, Alpha Beach Road and Agungi between 2019 and 2020 through false representations. They further alleged he introduced to them along Chevron Drive parcel of land as his family’s land, a claim contradicted by the subsequent settlement with actual owners of the land.
Complainants solicitors stated that after they paid Akanbi ₦1.5 billion in settlement over his demands, he allegedly mobilised thugs who invaded the site, grievously wounded workers and disrupted construction.
Photographs annexed to the petitions showed spray-painted inscriptions on the property’s fence, including “THIS LAND IS NOT FOR SALE, BEWARE OF 419” and a claim that the land belonged to the Ojomu royal family.
It was on this basis, the petitions were sent to the police requesting protection for them and their property “while they clean/remove the inscription illegally inscribed on the property “. The petitioners asked that Akanbi and his associates be restrained from further interference.
Jimoh, who’s the AIG in charge of Zone 2 Lagos, has faced allegations of false and unsubstantiated corruption from VeryDarkMan, over the investigation into the killings of Sheriff Ishola in April 2023 and one Demola Akinloye in August 2024 in Ajiran, Eti-Osa, both cases in which Akanbi was named a principal suspect who allegedly sponsored the two murders. Jimoh has said the two suspects arrested in the case gave statements implicating Akanbi, who was later declared wanted and returned to Nigeria by INTERPOL.
Otse, who’s been at the forefront of agitations to exonerate Akanbi despite the murder cases pending before a court of competent jurisdiction, had released a voice note purportedly discussions between Akanbi and one Akin Fakorede where they were discussing the VGC land.
In the voice conversation, one of the speakers could be heard saying in Yoruba that it was Jimoh that sent police to the land…
While VDM ran to town with the voice note and allegations that Jimoh was dragging the land and that was why he framed Akanbi, details contained in the petitions proved contrary.
According to sources, the complainants have repeatedly commended Jimoh for his professionalism, telling everyone who cared to listen that the senior officer never demanded nor received anything from them.
“They said it several times that they didn’t know Jimoh when the petition was submitted and he acted on it without demanding anything. The AIG who was CP then, did not collect money nor land. He doesn’t own a land there. The property belong to the petitioners,and Akanbi sent his thugs there because he wanted to grab the land at all cost but thankfully, the policemen were deployed and they prevented his evil plans,” said the source.
According to the source, accusations against Jimoh were merely blackmail to weaken him from carrying out his statutory duties.He probably refused to collect bribe from Akanbi and his cohorts, that’s why they have gone to social media to malign him.
The AIG had earlier responded to the corruption allegation against him, that he is not corrupt and didn’t take any money or property from anyone. He urged anyone with evidence to take same to the court or hand them over to Akanbi’s lawyers to form part of their defence in the ongoing trial.
He also stated that no amount of pressure or blackmail would stop him from doing what was right, adding that from the investigations conducted in the case, Akanbi had case to answer and the Police have evidences that can stand the test of trial against Hamed Tajudeen AKANBI and his cohorts in the matter.
On the allegations online that he bungled the investigation into the death of Mohbad, police sources described the purveyors as ignorant and unintelligent.
Their reason is because Mohbad died in 2023 and the probe into his death started almost immediately until the issue went before a Lagos Coroner and the case later moved to the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) Abuja. They urged anyone interested to find out about this at FCID, Abuja.
“Throughout this period, Jimoh was not serving at the Lagos State Police Command nor the FCID. He never investigated the case of Mohbad and had no links to it. He took over as CP Lagos on 18th February,2025 long after Mohbad’s case has gone to court. Even at that, on one or two occasions some group of persons protested to the Lagos command, he personally addressed and attended to them assuring them of Justice in the matter.He even gave them water and soft drinks and explained to them that police actions terminate once a matter has been charged to court.
“So, I don’t understand why they are linking him to Mohbad’s case if not for mischief,” said the source.