Tinubu Involved In Funsho Williams Death

 Mar 21, 2015

Bashir Junaid, one of the detainees in the

murder trial of the PDP chieftain, Funsho

Williams, has filed a suit seeking an order of

mandamus compelling the inspector general of

police to re-open investigations into how the late

PDP governorship candidate in Lagos was

murdered.

The order was granted as Justice Rita Ofili-

Ajumogobia of the Federal High Court in Lagos

on Thursday agreed to Junaid’s request.

Junaid, a former cemetery attendant, was

detained for about a year in connection with

Williams’s murder, but later released.

His suit listed the following as respondents: the

police inspector general at the time, Sunday

Ehindero; the Lagos state commissioner of

police; the investigating police officer in the

murder case; the attorney general of the

federation at the time; Modupe Shasore; the

former Lagos state governor, Senator Bola

Tinubu; Dr Muiz Banire; Babatunde Edu; Dele

Alake; and Oladele Ajomale.

According to Talentarenaafrica.com, in the suit

Junaid cited Tinubu as a prime suspect.

In a 48-point statement of claims in support of

the suit, Junaid who lives at 6/8 Oladiti Street,

Ilupeju, Palm Grove, Lagos, averred that due to

the influence of Tinubu and Banire and the

compromising position of the investigators at the

Federal Central Investigations Department

(FCID) Alagbon, Banire was only cautioned and

made to rewrite another statement by the police,

while his freely confessed statement which

could have assisted the police in its attempt to

unravel the actual killers of Williams, with the

concrete and implicating evidence, was

discarded by the police at Alagbon Close, Lagos.

Williams was killed on July 27, 2006 at his

Dolphin Estate residence in Ikoyi, Lagos