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RAPEUPDATE (VERY HOT): TIMI DAKOLO REVEALS HOW POLICE IS SUPPORTING FATOYINBO
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Afnews Editor
Jul 21, 2019
*Lives of my wife, children now at risk - Dakolo
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Popular Musician, Timi Dakolo, says the police have refused
to invite the Senior Pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly, Biodun
Fatoyinbo, who allegedly raped his wife, Busola, 20 years ago.
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Dakolo, therefore, wondered why the police would storm his
home in Gestapo style to invite him and his wife to Abuja from Lagos State
while Fatoyinbo who was in Abuja had never been invited.
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The musician said this at a press conference in Lagos on
Sunday.
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He noted that last month, he and his wife wrote a petition
to the police and they were questioned for six hours by cops.
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Dakolo, therefore, wondered why the police would invite him
and his wife to Abuja for another round of questioning.
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The artiste said, "On June 27, my wife, through her legal
representative, wrote a petition on rape against Mr. Biodun Fatoyinbo. The
petition was filed at the Office of the Assistant Commissioner of Police,
Alagbon, Ikoyi.
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"We had four meetings and about six hours at the police
station. The IG personally assigned the file and immediately asked for an
action on the case but we deliberately decided not to publicise it because we
believed the law would be followed through.
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"We had filed the petition before the release of the
interview that had been recorded three weeks before. The interview was
published on June 28. We have on several occasions met with the police in the
course of investigation. We were therefore shocked by the invitation to Abuja
when no visible action was taken to interview Mr. Fatoyinbo."
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He lamented that since the entire saga began, his life as
well as the lives of his wife, Busola, and his three children have been at
risk.
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Dakolo alleged that things got worse when the police made
their residential address in Lagos public thereby making them susceptible to
attacks.
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The artiste said, "I didn't expect that our residential
address, where my children live, would be released to the public and since
then, we have noticed how my life, my wife's life and the lives of my children
have been put at risk to strange faces around the house.
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"We have been followed home, people are watching our home;
we have not been able to do our work. We now have to tell our children why they
cannot step outside ."
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He rubbished allegations that he and his wife were trying to
extort money from Fatoyinbo, adding that he had made enough money from his
music.
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Dakolo asked Nigerians to stop treating rape victims like
criminals for speaking the truth.
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He said his wife had informed him of the alleged rape since
last year and it took a while before they both decided to make the matter
public.
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The artiste further stated that the allegation was not
targeted at the church but Fatoyinbo and the matter should thus be treated as a
crime and not a campaign against the body of Christ.
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Dakolo dismissed reports that he had claimed in the past
that he married his wife as a virgin, adding that it was not true that
Fatoyinbo paid for his honeymoon.
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"I have never attended COZA in my life. I have never been in
the same room with Fatoyinbo in my life, neither have I been a music director,"
he said. (Punchng)
