- Alleges faceless people after her life over her husband’s will
By Oluwaseyi Fadoro
A 67-year-old woman, Queen Irene Cole, who is the godmother and attorney of the massive estate of renowned late philanthropist, Sir Mobolaji Bank Anthony, has appealed to the Nigerian Police to release her domestic workers wrongfully arrested by the police for allegedly smoking Marijuana.
Queen Cole, a retired Naval Officer in the United States (U.S.) and mother of one of the children of the late philanthropist, said three of her domestic workers – Rilwan Akinlabi, Rafiu Akinlabi and Olalekan Samson, were arrested by the police who stormed her 29, Okotie Ebo Close, Ikoyi, Lagos residence, accused the boys of smoking Indian hemp and whisked them away without finding any Indian hemp in their possession.
Speaking to newsmen at her residence, Cole also raised the alarm of threats to her life, following a petition she wrote, alleging diversion of dividends of her late husband’s investments and seeking protection for the beneficiaries of the Will of late Bank Anthony.
She said the police entered her residence and bundled her domestic staffs away without discovering any incriminating evidence. She therefore wondered why the innocent young boys would be arrested and delayed for four days.
“How many little boys around here smoke that you (Police) will now take them from inside a house and detain them for four days and then take them to Abuja. Why doing such things to those young boys? I see the arrest of my domestic staff as part of the gimmicks of some people to attack me and frustrate me out of this property,” he said.
The retired Naval Officer also narrated how she was abducted inside a police station in Lagos by a team of policemen who claimed they came from Force headquarters, Abuja on the instructions of the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar.