The Afro hip-hop singer has been fighting to protect his image and clear his name after investigations into the death of his friend, Tagbo Umeike, commenced and news reports surfaced that the singer has been arrested in relation to his involvement in the case.
Davido released a statement by his lawyer stating that the late Tagbo never entered his car and he released CCTV footages of the events that took place that night.
In the statement, the lawyer debunked news that the singer was arrested or detained by the police, rather, he said the singer made himself available in order to assist the police in its investigation and was allowed to go after a ‘satisfactory explanation’.
The statement also held that the CCTV footage which has been made available to the police and the general public discloses the chain of events which lead up to the discovery of the remains of the deceased and does not in any way implicate or incriminate the singer.
“Our client was also not involved in the untimely death of the deceased, nor did he give any instructions to anyone to ‘dump’ the corpse of Mr. TagboUmeike anywhere. Further, and as a matter of fact, we wish to state that the deceased did not step a foot, even for a second, in any of our Client’s vehicles on the evening of this sad series of events.
“The facts that can be distilled from the CCTV footage obtained from “Shisha Room” are that on or about 12:23 am in the early hours of Tuesday the 3rd of October, 2017 our Client got ready to leave the premises of the “Shisha Room”, where he had gone to earlier in the company of some of his friends to celebrate the birthday of one Clarks Adeleke.
“Again, we reiterate our client arrived at the Shisha Room in his vehicle with his friends and the deceased arrived about one hour later in his own vehicle. The CCTV footage obtained from the ‘Shisha Room’ captured our Client and some others, including the deceased all standing close to our Client’s vehicle as he prepared to leave after the drinks and celebrations.
“The deceased is seen in that footage to be in a very drunken and intoxicated state as he was staggering and falling on the people around him. Our Client tried to convince the deceased person to get into his vehicle in his drunken state so as to take him home safely, but this overture on our Client’s part was declined by the deceased.”
Norrison Quakers (SAN), Davido’s lawyer, also called out malicious reports that his client was involved in the death of the deceased and asked the general public to disregard any such claims. He said that the footages from the CCTV are proof of what actually transpired. This development has further renewed hope that the singer might yet save his image.
In the CCTV clips, Tagbo is seen terribly intoxicated, he almost could not stand. At some point he almost fell and Davido made effort to rescue him. Davido’s aide is seen trying to help Tagbo in the car but he refused and the Aide gave up with a sign of frustration. The artiste clearly left the scene after Tagbo.
