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Allegations by social media influencer Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), that Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Olohundare Moshood Jimoh framed businessman Hameed Tajudeen Akanbi in connection with two murder cases to facilitate the takeover of a disputed property in the Victoria Garden City (VGC) area of Lagos are contradicted by documents cited by our correspondent.
The documents indicate that police officers deployed to the property were responding to petitions submitted to the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and the Lagos State Commissioner of Police by the developers, whose identities are being withheld. The petitions sought police protection and intervention over an ongoing land dispute and alleged threats to life, criminal breach of trust, fraudulent extortion and other offences.
One of the petitions, dated December 5, 2025 and addressed to the IGP, and another dated January 20, 2026 to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, were written through the developers’ solicitors.
According to the petitions, the complainants stated that they possess a Contract of Sale and Lagos State Government Consent establishing their ownership of the property following a 2022 settlement with the land’s original owners.
The petitioners further alleged that Akanbi, who was introduced to them in 2019 as a land consultant, fraudulently acquired control of more than 40 plots of land along Orchid Road, Alpha Beach Road and Agungi between 2019 and 2020 through false representations. They also alleged that he presented another parcel of land along Chevron Drive as belonging to his family, a claim they said was contradicted by their subsequent settlement with the acknowledged original owners.
According to the petitions, the developers later paid Akanbi about ₦1.5 billion in settlement of his claims. Despite this, they alleged that he subsequently mobilised individuals who invaded the property, assaulted workers and disrupted construction activities.
Photographs attached to the petitions reportedly showed inscriptions spray-painted on the property’s perimeter fence, including “THIS LAND IS NOT FOR SALE, BEWARE OF 419,” alongside claims that the land belonged to the Ojomu Royal Family.
The petitioners consequently requested police protection to enable them remove the inscriptions from the property and prevent further interference with their activities.
Jimoh, who currently heads Zone 2 Police Command, has recently faced allegations from VeryDarkMan regarding the police investigation into the killings of Sheriff Ishola in April 2023 and Demola Akinloye in August 2024, both of which occurred in Ajiran, Eti-Osa.
Police authorities have maintained that Akanbi was identified during the investigation as a principal suspect alleged to have sponsored both killings. According to police, statements obtained from two suspects linked him to the offences, after which he was declared wanted before subsequently returning to Nigeria through INTERPOL processes.
VeryDarkMan has questioned the police investigation and called for Akanbi’s exoneration. As part of his claims, he released an audio recording purportedly featuring a conversation between Akanbi and one Akin Fakorede discussing the disputed VGC property.
In the recording, one of the speakers allegedly claimed in Yoruba that Jimoh was responsible for deploying police officers to the property.
However, the documents reviewed by this newspaper indicate that police deployment followed formal petitions submitted by the developers requesting security protection over the disputed land.
Sources familiar with the matter also said the complainants had consistently expressed satisfaction with Jimoh’s handling of their petitions, maintaining that they had no prior relationship with him before approaching the police.
“They said repeatedly that they did not know Jimoh before submitting the petition and that he acted strictly in response to their complaints. According to them, he neither demanded nor received money, land or any other benefit from them. They insist that the police deployment was solely to maintain law and order while the dispute remained under investigation,” one source said.
The source further described the allegations against the senior police officer as an attempt to discredit him, but no independent evidence was provided to support that claim.
Responding earlier to the allegations, Jimoh denied receiving money, land or any other benefit from anyone connected with the matter.
He challenged anyone with credible evidence of wrongdoing against him to present it before a court of law or make it available to the defence team representing Akanbi in the ongoing criminal proceedings.
The AIG also maintained that the police investigation produced evidence which, in the view of investigators, justified the charges filed against Akanbi and others standing trial in connection with the case.
On separate allegations circulating online linking him to the investigation into the death of singer Ilerioluwa Aloba, popularly known as Mohbad, police sources dismissed the claims, insisting that Jimoh had no role in the investigation.
According to the sources, Mohbad died in September 2023 and investigations commenced immediately before the matter proceeded before a Lagos State Coroner’s Court and was subsequently handled by the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Abuja.
The sources noted that Jimoh was neither serving at the Lagos State Police Command nor at the FCID during the period when the investigation was conducted. They added that he assumed office as Lagos State Commissioner of Police on February 18, 2025, after the matter had already progressed before the courts.
The sources recalled that although some groups later protested at the Lagos State Police Command over the case while Jimoh was Commissioner of Police, he met with the protesters and explained that the police could not interfere further once the matter had become subject to ongoing judicial proceedings.
