Oyo State police command Monday disclosed that 14 persons have been arrested in connection with last Fridays crisis involving rival factions of All Progressive Congress ( APC) over a House of Representatives slot in which a police inspector was killed and several others wounded. The police spokesperson, Olabisi Ilobanafor who disclosed this while addressing reporters on the security situation in the state however debunked claims that there were lives lost during the Sunday mayhem in Popoyemoja, Born-Photo area, an Ibadan hinterland in which houses, shops, vehicles and motorcycles were vandalized by suspected political thugs on alleged reprisal attack following Fridays episode in Oke-Ado, Ibadan when a police officer was killed and others injured. Ilobanafor said the 18 suspected hoodlums arrested during Friday fracas had been taken to court as at the time of briefing the press adding however that no arrest could be made on Sunday due to the nature of the environment where the trouble occurred. She said, the police had to restrain themselves to avoid shooting innocent people because of the dense population of the area coupled with the cockroach approach adopted by the hoodlums, who would come out to perpetrate crime and withdraw into the densely populated jungle, the terrain of which was difficult for our personnel to navigate. Meanwhile, the lawmaker representing Egbeda State Constituency in the Oyo State House of Assembly, Ibrahim Bolomope has denied allegation of gun-running leveled against him. Bolomope insisted that he did not have anything to do with one Pelumi Adebanji, who claimed the lawmaker gave him the gun he was arrested with. Adebanji was arrested last Tuesday by the police in Egbeda with a double-barrel gun and claimed it was given to him by the All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmaker. The issue had taken the lawmaker to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) where he was sighted by our reporter last Friday, but, when accosted yesterday at the Oyo State Command Headquarters of the Nigeria Police, he denied the allegation. Bolomope said he came to see the State Police Commissioner out of his own volition and not on police invitation to clear his name based on a media report linking him with the gun-running story. He however claimed to know the arrested Adebanji, whom he described as the youth leader of his community adding that the young man was a child of one of his co-landlords in the area, but denied giving any gun to him.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:38:38 +0000
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