The Federal Government has initiated criminal proceedings against five former employees of Alpha-Beta Consulting LLP, including the Media Officer of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), Lagos Branch, Segun Oluwasanmi.
Naijaonpoint understands that Alpha-Beta is a consulting firm that handles the computation, tracking, and reconciliation of Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) in Lagos State in return for a commission.
According to Sahara Reporters, the accused are being prosecuted by the Federal Government of Nigeria before the Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged cybercrime offences.
The case, marked FHC/L/1904, was instituted by the Federal Republic of Nigeria against Olayinka Gafar Oladeji, Ajibade Olufemi Adeyemi, Olatoye Jimoh Bamidele, Oluwasegun Oluwasanmi and Okewale Akintunde Oluleke.
The defendants are facing five counts bordering on alleged conspiracy, cyberbullying, transmission of threatening messages, dissemination of online publications, and the alleged creation of an anonymous Gmail account in connection with reports concerning Alpha-Beta Consulting LLP and its Group Managing Director.
The latest development comes after the police on Tuesday withdrew an earlier case against Oluwasanmi and others at Magistrate Court 3 in Ogba, Lagos, only to inform them that a fresh case had already been instituted before the Federal High Court.
Speaking with the aforementioned publication, Oluwasanmi alleged that the prosecution was intended to silence the rights group over its petitions accusing Alpha-Beta of forgery, tax evasion, and other alleged misconduct.
“At the Magistrate Court, Ogba Court 3, today, the police said they are withdrawing the case,” Oluwasanmi told SaharaReporters.
“After they withdrew the case, they said they wanted to arrest me. I said no, for what? They said that the case is at the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, before Justice A. Lewis-Allagoa, for July 2nd, that is, Thursday.
“Then we told him, you would have served us, you know our address, why can’t you come and serve us? Instead, you said you want to arrest us. For what? So that he will legally keep us until the hearing date?
“We wrote to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), but they never did anything. We wrote to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the Lagos State Police Command, and Zone 2, with several follow-ups, but they didn’t do anything.
“The EFCC told us that the forgery of the signature we referred to did not involve loss of funds, and they didn’t say anything about tax evasion. They said that the amount involved in the bribery we wrote about is below the threshold.
“This is the same EFCC that went to harass somebody during a wedding in Akure, Ondo State, claiming that somebody gave them information that a ‘Yahoo Boy’ was doing a wedding. They didn’t see anything, yet they went there to destroy the wedding.
“But when we wrote to them, they didn’t do anything because Alpha-Beta is involved. The ICPC approved the petition in Lagos and sent it to Abuja, but Abuja didn’t respond,” he said.
Oluwasanmi said that in several follow-ups on the petitions by CDHR, the ICPC told them to write to Abuja.
“They were begging us to save their jobs because it is about Alpha-Beta. The police commissioner and Zone 2 were all afraid.
“This is where we are in this country. Where police and anti-corruption agencies no longer investigate crimes, instead, they are trying to silence the person who complained to CDHR,” he said.
He further alleged that Alpha-Beta and its investigators attempted to connect him to an internal dispute involving the company’s employees despite the fact that he had left the company five months earlier.
“In trying to do that, they are now trying to link me with 16 staff members of Alpha-Beta under investigation.
“Alpha-Beta was investigating 16 of its staff members over what transpired in May 2025, while we wrote our petitions in October 2025,” Oluwasanmi said.
According to him, “Before we wrote our petitions, they had been conducting their investigation, and they had concluded their investigation. But immediately we made our petitions, they tried to rope me into it.
“Incidentally, the same police who invited me exonerated me on November 2, 2025. But because we petitioned the police, they invited me the second time, and detained me unnecessarily before we were taken to court.”
He also accused the police of intimidating a woman in an attempt to trace him.
“We petitioned the police officer because, in trying to reach me, he went into checking my call log by luring a woman I had spoken with on the phone to Lagos instead of serving me a court process.
“Because the woman does fumigation work, the police lied to her that they wanted to do fumigation.
