Breaking: Police Documents Exonerate AIG Jimoh from Allegations Made by VeryDarkMan on Ajiran Murder Case

By Raheem Ibrahim

The police documents have exonerated the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), Moshood Olohundare Jimoh, from the recent allegations made by social media influencer Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), alleging that he framed businessman Hameed Tajudeen Akanbi for two murders in order to take over a piece of land in the Victoria Garden City (VGC) area. The documents described the allegations as untrue, concocted, and baseless.

An authoritative source revealed that the allegations involving AIG Jimoh were merely a frame-up aimed at tarnishing his image and weakening him from performing his statutory duties as a no-nonsense police officer.

The documents obtained at the weekend showed that policemen were deployed to the said property based on a series of petitions written by the developers (names withheld) to the then Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command.

In January this year, the petition was forwarded to the then Commissioner of Police, Jimoh, for thorough investigation, police protection for the petitioners, and investigation into alleged threats to life, criminal breach of trust, fraudulent extortion, among other allegations.

In the petitions, written through their lawyers and dated December 5, 2025, to the IGP and January 20, 2026, to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, the complainants stated that they held 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 petitions stated that Akanbi, who first presented himself to the complainants in 2019 as a land consultant, fraudulently obtained over 40 plots of land across Orchid Road, Alpha Beach Road, and Agungi between 2019 and 2020 through false representations.

They further alleged that he introduced to them, along Chevron Drive, a parcel of land he claimed belonged to his family, a claim contradicted by the subsequent settlement reached with the actual owners of the land.

The complainants’ solicitors stated that after they paid Akanbi ₦1.5 billion in settlement based on his demands, he allegedly mobilised thugs who invaded the site, grievously wounded workers, and disrupted construction.

Photographs attached to the petitions showed spray-painted inscriptions on the property’s fence, including, “THIS LAND IS NOT FOR SALE, BEWARE OF 419,” and a claim that the land belonged to the Ojomu royal family.

It was on this basis that the petitions were sent to the police, requesting protection for the complainants and their property “while they clean/remove the inscription illegally inscribed on the property.”

The petitioners also requested that Akanbi and his associates be restrained from further interference.

Jimoh, who is the AIG in charge of Zone 2, Lagos, has recently faced allegations of corruption from VeryDarkMan over the investigation into the killings of Sheriff Ishola in April 2023 and Demola Akinloye in August 2024 in Ajiran, Eti Osa. In both cases, Akanbi was named as the principal suspect who allegedly sponsored the murders.

Jimoh stated that the two suspects arrested in connection with the case gave statements implicating Akanbi, who was subsequently declared wanted and later returned to Nigeria through INTERPOL.

Otse, who has been at the forefront of campaigns to exonerate Akanbi despite the murder cases pending before a court of competent jurisdiction, released a voice note purportedly containing a conversation between Akanbi and one Akin Fakorede discussing the VGC land.

In the recorded conversation, one of the speakers could be heard saying in Yoruba that it was Jimoh who sent police officers to the land.

While VDM circulated the voice note alongside allegations that Jimoh was interested in the land and therefore framed Akanbi, details contained in the petitions proved otherwise.

According to sources, “the complainants have repeatedly commended Jimoh for his professionalism, telling everyone who cared to listen that the senior officer neither demanded nor received anything from them.”

The sources added that the complainants had repeatedly stated that they did not know Jimoh when the petition was submitted and that he acted on it without demanding anything.

“The AIG, who was the Commissioner of Police at the time, did not collect money or land. He does not own any land there.

“The property belongs to the petitioners, and Akanbi allegedly sent his thugs there because he wanted to grab the land at all costs. Thankfully, the police officers deployed to the scene prevented his plans,” the source said.

According to the source, the accusations against Jimoh were merely blackmail intended to weaken him from carrying out his statutory duties.

“He probably refused to accept a bribe from Akanbi and his associates. That is why they have gone to social media to malign him.”

The AIG had earlier responded to the corruption allegations, insisting that he was not corrupt and had not taken any money or property from anyone.

He urged anyone with credible evidence to present it before a court of law or hand it over to Akanbi’s lawyers to form part of their defence in the ongoing trial.

He also stated that no amount of pressure or blackmail would stop him from doing what was right, adding that, based on the investigations conducted, Akanbi had a case to answer and that the police had evidence capable of withstanding judicial scrutiny against Hameed Tajudeen Akanbi and his associates.

On the allegations circulating online that he bungled the investigation into the death of Mohbad, police sources described those making the claims as ignorant and misinformed.

According to the sources, Mohbad died in 2023, and the investigation into his death commenced almost immediately before the matter went before a Lagos State Coroner. The case was later transferred to the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Abuja.

They urged anyone interested in the matter to seek clarification from the FCID, Abuja.

Throughout that period, Jimoh was neither serving at the Lagos State Police Command nor at the FCID.

He did not investigate Mohbad’s case and had no connection with it.

He assumed office as Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Command, on February 18, 2025, long after Mohbad’s case had been taken to court.

Even then, on one or two occasions when groups protested at the Lagos State Police Command, he personally addressed them and assured them that justice would be served.

He also provided them with water and soft drinks while explaining that the police’s role ends once a matter has been charged before a competent court.

The source wondered, “I don’t understand why they are linking him to Mohbad’s case, if not for mischief.”