Media personality, Ifedayo Olarinde, popularly known as Daddy Freeze, has said he didn’t take part in the arrest of a man simply identified as @dannyyung01, who made lustful remarks about his four-year-old son on Instagram.

He also said the suspected paedophile got into some other trouble with the security company he worked at, because he was seen in offices he didn’t have any business in.

In a chat with Sunday Scoop, Freeze said,

The paedophile case was not a joke at all and he (Dannyyung01) didn’t say that it was one. There are some things that you cannot consider as a joke. We are no longer in the Jurassic era where we are hitting ourselves with clubs and the like. You can’t just say things like that in this age about a four-year-old child.

As long as you’re working with a reputable organisation, no one will want to identify or condone a staff member that makes such comments publicly. A lot of people said that I went too far by ordering his arrest but I wasn’t instrumental to his arrest. It was the security agency he works with that arrested him for a breach. He was in offices that he was not supposed to be. I don’t know the details of that but I trust the security agency to deal with the situation accordingly.

From the moment I posted his comments on social media, I was called for a meeting from the security agency and they apologised. They made sure that the matter was properly dealt with because till today, my wife has been scared and is nursing some strange feelings. It’s something we need to be very careful about because a lot of paedophiles have got away with these crimes in this part of the world.

While responding to questions regarding his exit from Cool FM, after 20 years of working with the radio station, he said,

It was a very hard decision to make but I need a lot more time on my hands and I also need to diversify. However, my Sunday shows would still be aired because I’m not entirely leaving the Cool FM family. I just want to give what I do on social media a voice. I’m basically taking a bow from urban radio.

Sparing some advice for Naira Marley’s fans, popularly called Marlians, the media personality said,

To say that Marlians don’t graduate is just a fad but those that are going to be fooled will be fooled. Naira Marley is also educated, so if you’re following him, do that from afar because he’s not a fool.

Justin Nwosu

Justin Nwosu is the founder and publisher of Flavision. His core interest is in writing unbiased news about Nigeria in particular and Africa in general. He’s a strong adherent of investigative journalism, with a bent on exposing corruption, abuse of power and societal ills.