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Police operatives have stormed the Ogbomoso residence of the family of Prince Adeyemi Adeniyi, the central figure in an ongoing forgery investigation linked to an alleged fictitious presidential agency, arresting his father and a family friend, according to human rights lawyer Femi Falana and eyewitnesses.
The development on Monday comes as the controversy surrounding the alleged Presidential Fiscal and Infrastructure Projects Council continues to generate national attention.
Falana confirmed the arrest in a telephone conversation with Punch, questioning the legal basis for the action.
“Police have now stormed the house of the parents of Prince Adeyemi Adeniyi, Plot 3, Adeniyi Dynasty, behind Technical College, Road Safety Area, Ogbomoso,” he said .
“The father has been arrested. There is no legal basis for substituted arrests. The young man has promised to show up in court, so why arrest his father?”
An anonymous resident of the neighbourhood told Punch Online that police officers arrived at the premises in four vehicles before taking Adeniyi’s father away.
The source said officers “started harassing them and eventually took the father away. They didn’t allow the neighbours to intervene before they took him away. At the moment, there is a man in blue clothes patrolling the area.”
Another neighbour who spoke on condition of anonymity confirmed that “Baba was taken away with someone who came to visit them this morning. They left the mother, who is currently in shock, but we have moved her away.”
The police had not issued an official statement on the alleged operation at the time of filing this report.
Adeniyi is facing criminal charges over alleged forgery, impersonation, and related offences linked to the purported Presidential Fiscal and Infrastructure Projects Council, which authorities say was never legally constituted.
The matter is scheduled for trial at the High Court in Abuja on July 27, 2026.
