Abeokuta: By Sina ODUNTAN
Published, Tuesday, June 13, 2023
THE KINGMAKERS OF AGOSASA have asked the Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba to order the Ogun State Police Command to arrest the killers of three indigenes who were killed and assassinated on September 12, 2022 during the protest that accompanied the gruesome murder of the personal assistant to an Oba-elect of Agosasa.
The Agosasa kingmakers led by Chief Awode Akanni Oladosu, Aro and the head of kingmakers to the stool of Oja of Agosasa addressed journalists in a press conference on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 at Agosasa that the Ogun State Police Command has failed to arrest, investigate and prosecute the killers of three young people who were gruesomely murdered by known assailants on Monday, September 12, 2022, at Agosasa, Ipokia Local Government area, Ogun State.
Chief Awode Oladosu, also, tasked the Nigerian Army Chief of Staff, Lt. General Faruk Yahaya to order the Brigade Commander, 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala, Abeokuta, Ogun State and Commanding Officer, … to identify, arrest and prosecute the soldiers involved in the killing and torture of the people of Agosasa on the night of September 12, 2022.
The head of the Agosasa kingmakers, Chief Awode Oladosu has alleged that Otunba Akeem Adigun (a.k. a. Socopao) in the morning of September 12, 2022, had ordered his police orderly to shoot one Nofiu Amosun, the personal assistant to the Oba-elect of Agosasa while the latter was coming from Ipokia on errand.
“On September 11, 2022, about the evening, the Oga Ilu, High Chief Alhaji Fatai Ajibola, Oga Ilu Agosasa, received a phone call from the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs inviting all the Kingmakers to his office at Oke Mosan, Abeokuta at 10 ‘O clock in the morning without giving him any clue. We set out about 7:00am in the morning of 12th September, 2022 to honour the invitation from the PS, Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.
“We were already in Abeokuta when a phone call came in from Agosasa, informing us that Otunba Akeem Adigun and his police orderly had shot Nofiu Amosun. We instructed the caller to take him to the nearest hospital to save his life. However, by the time the first victim of Otunba Adigun was taken to the Hospital the doctor who attended to him confirmed him dead.
“According to the eye-witness accounts, Otunba Adigun ordered his convoy to pursue the Okada on which late Nofiu Amosun was riding. In the process, both late Nofiu Amosun and the rider tripped and fell down. Before Nofiu could rise up to run for his dear life Otunba Akeem Adigun’s police orderly had alighted and shot Nofiu. Otunba Adigun, himself, alighted from his car and stabbed Nofiu Amosun severally before they drove off from the scene,” Chief Oladosu narrated.
The Aro of Agosasa further said he and other chiefs were immediately taken to the office of the Department of State Service (DSS), Abeokuta where they spent three days in detention.
He said they were still in the custody of the DSS in Abeokuta when they learned that while the youth of the Agosasa were protesting and moving toward the Secretariat of Ipokia Local Government, another person, Rafiu Fadeyi was gunned down by one of the supporters of Otunba Akeem Adigun named Godonu Seripa, who immediately bolted away and yet to be seen since then.
According to Chief Oladosu, Aro of Agosasa, while the younger brother of the deceased ran to the town to inform others and ferry a vehicle to take the deceased to the hospital, the body of Rafiu Fadeyi had been removed and up till now the corpse is still missing.
Oladosu further said on the night of September 12, 2022, the soldiers of 192 Battalion, Owode Yewa, Ogun State entred Agosasa and made two arrests. Wasiu Ibikunle and Fatai Fadeyi were arrested inside their Abogunrin compound. Wasiu Ibikunle died in the hands of the soldiers, while Fatai survived after spending 13 days in the military hospital at the 192 Battalion barracks, adding that days after Joel Fadeyi was shot severally, for divine intervention Joel was saved.
He also said despite several complaints and petitions to the Police and Nigeria Army in Ogun State, Otunba Akeem Adigun and others are yet to be arrested and investigated to ascertain their culpability.
Given the reasons for the killings of three persons, Chief Awode Oladosu said Otunba Akeem Adigun, alias Socopao, against the decision of the Agosasa kingmakers, suddenly brought one Azeez Akinpelu as his candidate to succeed the late monarch, Oba James Oyebi Elegbede after about two months that Oba-elect Sunday Olasina Adediran Abogunrin was already called to Ipebi.
However, speaking to journalists virtually on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, Otunba Akeem Adigun admitted that his police orderly shot Nofiu Amosun in self-defence.
According to Otunba Adigun (Socopao), the motorcycle on which Nofiu Amosun was riding with Okada rider crossed his convoy and halted their movement. His police orderly quickly alighted to challenge the intruders, adding that as Nofiu Amosun was about to stab the police orderly with “Jack knife” the latter gave him “stud”, disarmed and shot him. He denied stabbing him.
Socopao as he’s fondly called said he then proceeded on his journey to Abeokuta to meet the government appointment. He said he was in the meeting with the Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Hon. Ganiyu Hamzat, in his office at Oke Mosan, Abeokuta, Ogun State when he received a call that his house with seven vehicles, one which contained $65,000 were burnt down, including his family house.
Since then the police has charged 18 people in Agosasa to court for the crime, which those kingmakers who were in the same meeting with Otunba Akeem Adigun alias Socopao, have denied vehemently, knowing anything about.
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