Court frees minor who stood in front of Peter Obi’s convoy after months in prison

Court frees minor who stood in front of Peter Obi’s convoy after months in prison

 The magistrate court in Apapa, Lagos, has freed Alabi
Quadri, the teenager who went viral in the buildup to the 2023 presidential
election.

 

The photograph of Quadri making an appearance before Peter
Obi’s campaign motorcade had gained traction online at the time.

 

On Thursday, Adetola Olorunfemi, the magistrate, ordered the
release of Quadri following legal advice from the Director of Public
Prosecutions (DPP).

 

The DPP had averred that there is no evidence to
substantiate the armed robbery allegation against the minor.

 

In a recent social media post, an activist had shared that
Quadri has been in Kirikiri prison since January 2025 “for an offence he did
not commit”.

 

The teenager was said to have been returning home from work
when he was forcefully taken to the police station by some young men over
claims that he was among a group of robbers in the community.

 

The teenager’s mother attributed Quadri’s ordeal to the
entitlement of some street urchins to the largesse he reportedly received after
making the headlines in 2023.

 

 

The post had caught the attention of many Nigerians,
including Obi and Inibehe Effiong, a human rights lawyer.

 

‘POLICE MUST PAY N100 MILLION AS COMPENSATION’

 

Commenting on the court judgment, Effiong, the teenager’s lawyer,
said the police must pay N100 million to Quadri as compensation and tender a
public apology.

 

The human rights lawyer demanded that the Lagos police
command must remove the divisional police officers of Amukoko for participating
in the alleged framing of the teenager for armed robbery.

 

 

“We commend the DPP for standing by the truth in this
matter,” Effiong said.

 

“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’.

 

“We demand that the Nigeria Police Force should pay the sum
of One Hundred Million Naira (N100,000,000.00) to our client as compensation.

 

“Also, we also demand a public apology from the police. If
the above three remedial demands are not fully complied with immediately, we
shall initiate legal actions to seek redress.

 

 

“Quadri’s case is a painful example of the putrefying corruption,
monstrous impunity, and pervasive injustice in the Nigeria Police Force.”

 

 

Source: Court frees minor who stood in front of Peter Obi’s convoy after months in prison

 - NigerianEye

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