The Oyo State Government on Wednesday inaugurated
a five-man judicial commission of enquiry to investigate the protracted
crisis in the state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport
Workers in which several lives had been lost.
Inaugurating the panel which has a retired high court judge, Justice Olagoke Ige, as the chairman, Governor Abiola Ajimobi said his government resolved to investigate the NURTW crisis because it could no longer fold its hands while some people continued to portray the state as a state of touts and hooligans.
Ajimobi said that though his administration inherited the problem, his government had resolved to put a stop to it.
The governor vowed that nobody or group found culpable, no matter how highly-placed, would be spared.
The probe panel has a principal administrative officer, Alhaji Lere Omotosho, as secretary and a lawyer, Mr. Lekan Owolabi; a journalist, Mr. Tunji Alawaye; as well as a human rights activist, Dr. Doyin Odebowale, as members.
It has eight weeks to conclude its assignment and submit its report.
Its terms of reference, according to the governor, include:
- To investigate the immediate and remote causes of the violent clash.
- To identify those individuals and or groups that precipitated and or participated in the crisis either directly or indirectly, and recommend appropriate sanctions to be imposed on the identified culprits.
- To ascertain the number of persons killed or that sustained injuries during the crisis.
- To identify the spread and extent of loss and damage to means of livelihood and assess the cost of damage to personal or public properties during the crisis.,
- To investigate the sources of weapons used in the unrest and recommend measures to stem the illegal flow of such weapons in the state.
-To make appropriate recommendations on how to prevent recurrence.
-To recommend appropriate remedies to the innocent victims of the crisis, and
-To examine any other matters incidental or relevant to the crisis and advise government appropriately.
Meanwhile, the National Association of Nigerian Students has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to court-marshal the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Baba Bolanta, for his alleged role in the Oyo NURTW crisis.
The association also wants Bolanta to be redeployed to the Force Headquarters for his alleged failure to apprehend the arrowheads of the clash.
The association’s President, Mr. Jude Imagwe, made the call in Ibadan, the state capital, on Wednesday during a peaceful protest over the killing of a 500-Level student of the College of Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Mr. Bala Shanono, in the crisis.
By Olalekan Adetayo, Ibadan Courtesy Of: Punch
Inaugurating the panel which has a retired high court judge, Justice Olagoke Ige, as the chairman, Governor Abiola Ajimobi said his government resolved to investigate the NURTW crisis because it could no longer fold its hands while some people continued to portray the state as a state of touts and hooligans.
Ajimobi said that though his administration inherited the problem, his government had resolved to put a stop to it.
The governor vowed that nobody or group found culpable, no matter how highly-placed, would be spared.
The probe panel has a principal administrative officer, Alhaji Lere Omotosho, as secretary and a lawyer, Mr. Lekan Owolabi; a journalist, Mr. Tunji Alawaye; as well as a human rights activist, Dr. Doyin Odebowale, as members.
It has eight weeks to conclude its assignment and submit its report.
Its terms of reference, according to the governor, include:
- To investigate the immediate and remote causes of the violent clash.
- To identify those individuals and or groups that precipitated and or participated in the crisis either directly or indirectly, and recommend appropriate sanctions to be imposed on the identified culprits.
- To ascertain the number of persons killed or that sustained injuries during the crisis.
- To identify the spread and extent of loss and damage to means of livelihood and assess the cost of damage to personal or public properties during the crisis.,
- To investigate the sources of weapons used in the unrest and recommend measures to stem the illegal flow of such weapons in the state.
-To make appropriate recommendations on how to prevent recurrence.
-To recommend appropriate remedies to the innocent victims of the crisis, and
-To examine any other matters incidental or relevant to the crisis and advise government appropriately.
Meanwhile, the National Association of Nigerian Students has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, to court-marshal the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Baba Bolanta, for his alleged role in the Oyo NURTW crisis.
The association also wants Bolanta to be redeployed to the Force Headquarters for his alleged failure to apprehend the arrowheads of the clash.
The association’s President, Mr. Jude Imagwe, made the call in Ibadan, the state capital, on Wednesday during a peaceful protest over the killing of a 500-Level student of the College of Medicine, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Mr. Bala Shanono, in the crisis.
By Olalekan Adetayo, Ibadan Courtesy Of: Punch
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