Seventeen-year-old teenager, Quadri Alabi, who gained wide attention by standing in front of Peter Obi‘s convoy during the 2023 general election, has finally regained freedom after spending several months in Nigeria’s Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kirikiri, Lagos.
Alabi was discharged after Magistrate Olorunfemi confirmed that the legal advice issued by Dr. Babajide Martins, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at the Lagos State Ministry of Justice, showed that there was no evidence to substantiate the allegation of armed robbery against him.
Inibehe Effiong, Alabi’s lawyer, in a signed document shared on X on Thursday, announced Alabi’s freedom while demanding that the Nigeria Police Force should apologise and pay his client the sum of N100 million as compensation after being unlawfully detained.
Effiong narrated that while his client was heading home from work in January, Lege and Baba Waris, “two notorious boys” known for their street lifestyle in Alabi’s area of Amukoko, abducted him and dumped him at the Amukoko Divisional Police Headquarters (Pako Police Station).
He added further that since Alabi gained recognition in 2023, the duo had been harassing and threatening him to give them ‘their share’ of donations gifted to him during the last election period.
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Also, he shared that the young lad’s family told him the Baale of the community equally pressured them to buy a cow and rice and cook for the community to appease the area boys.
“The abductors initially told the officers at Amukoko Police Station that our client was involved in street fighting,” he stated in the post. “To the consternation of Quadri and his family, the police on 26th January, 2025, took Quadri before a Magistrate in Apapa, and obtained an order remanding him at the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Kirikiri, on a trumped-up charge of armed robbery.”
“The police fraudulently joined Quadri with four strange adults who had no form of connection or relationship whatsoever with him and claimed that the four strange men were his case mates.”
Additionally, he wrote, “As part of the diabolical frame-up of our client, the officers at Amukoko Police Station also misrepresented his age to be 18, knowing that disclosing his actual age would likely raise eyebrows.
“We demand that the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, and the Inspector General of Police should, as a matter of urgency, remove the DPO of Amukoko Divisional Headquarters and subject him to orderly room trial along with the IPO, one Inspector Odigbe Samuel, and other officers who participated in this evil, sinister, oppressive, and corrupt scheme of framing up a teenager for armed robbery at the behest of rogue area boys.”
