Alpha-Beta Consulting LLP, a firm long linked to President Bola Tinubu, has dragged five members of the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), Lagos Branch, including its Media Officer Segun Oluwasanmi, before the Federal High Court in Lagos over alleged cybercrime offences linked to publications by SaharaReporters on corruption allegations against some officials of the company.
The case, marked FHC/L/1904, was filed 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 SaharaReporters, 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,” he said.
“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?
“But along the line, Barrister Segun Sojirin, Committee for Defence of Human Rights (CDHR), Lagos Branch Legal Adviser, engaged him and told him that they could agree to serve us the process in the Magistrate’s Court.
“They served the process on us in the Magistrate’s Court, so that we can appear before Justice A. Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court on Thursday.”
Oluwasanmi insisted that the charges were retaliation for petitions submitted by CDHR to anti-corruption agencies.
“They are just trying to silence our struggle and humiliate CDHR, just because CDHR wrote a petition against them for forgery of signature and tax evasion,” he said.
“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.”
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,” he said.
“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 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,” Oluwasanmi said.
“Alpha-Beta was investigating 16 of its staff members over what transpired in May 2025, while we wrote our petitions in October 2025.”
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,” he said.
“Because the woman does fumigation work, the police lied to her that they wanted to do fumigation.
“When they reached Lagos and the woman found out she was being taken to the police station, she refused to enter the station, and they beat her and tore her clothes.”
He added, “We wrote petitions to Zone 2 and Abuja on October 23 and 30, 2025, but they didn’t do anything.
“Because of our petition, they are trying to link me with the investigation on 16 Alpha-Beta staff members over a mail the staff members wrote in May requesting welfare improvement.
“Meanwhile, I left Alpha-Beta in January 2025, while everything they are investigating at Alpha-Beta happened five months after I left. On November 2, 2025, I was exonerated.”
According to the charge sheet, prosecutors alleged that the defendants conspired to commit cyberbullying contrary to Section 27(1)(b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act, 2015, as amended in 2024.
The prosecution further alleged that on May 26, 2025, the defendants used the email address [email protected] to send a threatening message directed at Alpha-Beta Group Managing Director, Otunba Akinsanya Doherty, through the company’s website and other platforms.
The charge specifically cited a message reading, “Both you, Mr & Mrs Akinsanya Olugbenga Dorothief, can you boldly tell your husband to step into the Alpha-Beta office and see if he comes out untouched.”
In another count, the prosecution alleged that the defendants intentionally communicated to the public through SaharaReporters and other media organisations a publication titled, “Tinubu-Linked Alpha-Beta Consulting pays N400,000 gratuity after 20 years of service, hands million, top contract job to GMD loyalist,” which investigators classified as cyberbullying under the Cybercrimes Act.
Another count accused the defendants of transmitting publications alleging that Alpha-Beta’s Group Managing Director engaged in an inappropriate relationship with Barrister Kemi Fawole, with company resources allegedly funding hotel visits and gifts.
The prosecution contended that those publications also constituted cyberbullying under the Act.
The fifth count alleged that the defendants secretly created the Gmail account [email protected] to conceal their identities while distributing the alleged bullying and threatening messages concerning Alpha-Beta, its Group Managing Director, Barrister Kemi Fawole, and members of the Doherty family.
The matter is scheduled to come before Justice A. Lewis-Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on Thursday, July 2.