A factional leader of the proscribed Oyo State
Council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Lateef
Akinsola (a.k.a. Tokyo, has dragged the state Commissioner of Police,
Mr. Baba Bolanta, to court for alleged defamation of character.
Akinsola is demanding N200m damages from the police boss for linking him to the recent violence unleashed on the state by some persons suspected to be members of the union.
Tokyo, who had been declared wanted by the state police command alongside another factional leader, Mr. Mukaila Lamidi (a.k.a Auxilliary), made known his latest step in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan, the state capital, on Wednesday.
He said he took objection to Bolanta’s decision to paste his (Akinsola’s) photographs in strategic places in the metropolis, claiming that he was being wanted over the violence.
He said the action was illegal, saying that the police boss was looking the other way while the real culprits were going round town with weapons.
He said, “Bolanta has no moral justification to declare me wanted. His action is illegal as I am not a criminal. I did not commit any crime. I am suing Bolanta for defamation of my character to the tune of N200m.
“Bolanta should stop spoiling my good name by his sponsored publications. Has Bolanta ever seen me leading any thug to kill anybody at motor parks?”
Meanwhile, former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala has accused Governor Abiola Ajimobi of political vendetta.
In a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Dotun Oyelade, on Wednesday, the former governor said the judicial commission of enquiry set up by the state government to probe the NURTW crisis was aimed at indicting him and the police.
He said, “The statement credited to the panel’s chairman that it would step on big toes is an unguided pre-emptory statement that suggests that the assignment of the panel is a ‘wuruwuru to the answer’ arrangement.”
But Ajimobi, in a statement by his Senior Special Adviser on Public Communication, Dr. Festus Adedayo, said Oyelade and his principal were apparently being haunted by the ghost of their days in office and were afraid that judgment day had come.
“Specifically, to douse their apprehension, the commission will not be the voodoo type that was the pastime of the Alao-Akala years. It will conduct a scientific public sitting by receiving testimonies of the years of the locusts where people were cut down in their prime, in the name of politics. To pre-empt the commission’s report as Alao-Akala is doing is cowardly,” he said.
By Olalekan Adetayo, Ibadan Courtesy Of: Punch
Akinsola is demanding N200m damages from the police boss for linking him to the recent violence unleashed on the state by some persons suspected to be members of the union.
Tokyo, who had been declared wanted by the state police command alongside another factional leader, Mr. Mukaila Lamidi (a.k.a Auxilliary), made known his latest step in a statement made available to journalists in Ibadan, the state capital, on Wednesday.
He said he took objection to Bolanta’s decision to paste his (Akinsola’s) photographs in strategic places in the metropolis, claiming that he was being wanted over the violence.
He said the action was illegal, saying that the police boss was looking the other way while the real culprits were going round town with weapons.
He said, “Bolanta has no moral justification to declare me wanted. His action is illegal as I am not a criminal. I did not commit any crime. I am suing Bolanta for defamation of my character to the tune of N200m.
“Bolanta should stop spoiling my good name by his sponsored publications. Has Bolanta ever seen me leading any thug to kill anybody at motor parks?”
Meanwhile, former Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala has accused Governor Abiola Ajimobi of political vendetta.
In a statement by his spokesman, Mr. Dotun Oyelade, on Wednesday, the former governor said the judicial commission of enquiry set up by the state government to probe the NURTW crisis was aimed at indicting him and the police.
He said, “The statement credited to the panel’s chairman that it would step on big toes is an unguided pre-emptory statement that suggests that the assignment of the panel is a ‘wuruwuru to the answer’ arrangement.”
But Ajimobi, in a statement by his Senior Special Adviser on Public Communication, Dr. Festus Adedayo, said Oyelade and his principal were apparently being haunted by the ghost of their days in office and were afraid that judgment day had come.
“Specifically, to douse their apprehension, the commission will not be the voodoo type that was the pastime of the Alao-Akala years. It will conduct a scientific public sitting by receiving testimonies of the years of the locusts where people were cut down in their prime, in the name of politics. To pre-empt the commission’s report as Alao-Akala is doing is cowardly,” he said.
By Olalekan Adetayo, Ibadan Courtesy Of: Punch
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