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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
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