Politics

Ogun community seeks government intervention over bad road

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Landlords and residents of Itesiwaju Omu Arogun Area Community Development Committee have lamented hardship over the deplorable state of the Mowe-Ofada Road, in the Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State.

The residents, including leaders in the community, while speaking with our correspondent, said the construction of the road started during the administration of the former governor of the state, Ibikunle Amosun, adding that the road had been abandoned.

They also said the palliative work done by the state governor, Dapo Abiodun, did not assuage their suffering, adding that the deplorable state of the Mowe-Ofada Road had become a death trap for residents plying the route to navigate their destinations in the community.

It was learnt that during the rainy season, floods usually submerge the road, and the situation worsens the experiences of road users including transport workers plying the axis.

A resident in one of the communities under the association, Emmanuel Akande, while lamenting over the hardship experienced on the road, said the situation worsened during the rainy season.

He said,

“The rainy season has made this road bad to go through; we have been appealing to the government but nothing significant has been done. We have had enough deaths recorded because of the bad road.”

Speaking with our correspondent, the Chairman of Arigbawonwo Area CDC under the association, Adekanye Adetola, who appealed to the state governor, Dapo Abiodun, to intervene in the matter, said construction work on the road was being done at a snail’s speed.

He said,

“We want the government to help us fix Mowe/Ofada Road of which the construction has been on for about seven years now. The first part of the road which is a dual carriage was done by the former governor, Ibikunle Amosun, while the present governor, Dapo Abiodun, did palliatives on it before the election.

“We need more of governments’ presence in providing basic infrastructure for the community. We have not been having it good when it comes to government infrastructural facilities. We do provide everything by ourselves including the roads.

“The government did not even realise that our community really existed, thinking it was farmland. During the last election, the government got to know how populated this place was when they saw the voters’ registration,” he said.

In his reaction, the Chairman, Itesiwaju Omu Arogun ACDC under the association, Yemi Adebisi, said the poor state of the road had been causing accidents that claimed the lives of residents.

He said, “It is sad that because of the bad state of this road, several lives have been lost to accidents. Government should please give this a priority. Once it rains in Mowe and its environs, it is usually difficult for children to go to school because of the flood on the road.

“Also, commuters from Mowe cannot travel to Ofada. Most of the residents will have to navigate through Lagos Ibadan Expressway to go to Abeokuta because the Owode-Ofada Road had been sacked. We want the government to help us fix the road.

“Though we learnt that the governor has already awarded it, and work will commence after the rainy season, we want him to help us follow up. We are confident that our governor will do it for us because he is a man that acts on his words.”

Lifestyle

Suspected cultist arrested with gun in Ogun

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The So-Safe Corps has arrested a suspected cultist who has been terrorizing residents of Ogun State.

Spokesperson of the So-Safe Corps, Moruf Yusuf, disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday, March 30, 2023, on behalf of the Corps Commander, Dr. Soji Ganzallo.

According to the statement, the suspect was arrested when the agency’s special team responded to a distress call of possible attacks from the men living in an abandoned flooded building of 20 rooms at Oke-Ijeun Tuntun in Abeokuta.

Ganzallo noted that the team was able to apprehend the kingpin, Mr Akeem Yekinni, a 48-year-old man, who resides at the said building at Nawar-ud-Deen, Ijeun Tuntun.

He said that the suspect refused to disclose the rest members of his team and their mode of operation.

Ganzallo further revealed that after a thorough search of the room where the suspect resides, a double-barrel locally made pistol and a live cartridge was found wrapped with a cloth and kept in a travelling bag.

The suspected cultist and the exhibits have been transferred to the Nigeria Police, Anti Cultism Unit, Oke-Ijemo, for onward transfer to the State Police Headquarters, Eleweran for further investigation and likely prosecution.

Lifestyle

Thieves steal equipment worth millions from Ogun hospital

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Suspected thieves reportedly broke into the newly inaugurated 100-bed Mother and Child Hospital in Iperu, Ikenne Local Government Area of Ogun State a month after commissioning.

Our correspondent reports that the hospital was commissioned on Saturday, February 1, 2023 by the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo.

The thieves reportedly broke into the hospital and carted away electronic equipment worth millions of naira.

The state commandant of the Security Network, otherwise called the Amotekun Corps, David Akinremi, confirmed the incident .

Akinremi disclosed this in a statement issued to journalists in Abeokuta on Friday.He said his operatives have arrested three suspects in connection with the crime.

He disclosed that the suspects stole six 43-inch Hisense T.V. sets, two 65-inch Bruhm T.V sets, three Bruhm fridges, one Midea refrigerator, and three Lontor rechargeable standing fans, all valued at N3 million.

Akinremi said the prime suspect, one Ogunjembola Kehinde, led his gang to burgle the hospital.

He said Ogunjembola was arrested following a complaint of burglary and stealing by one Kehinde Banjoko that some unknown persons broke into her residence while she was away in Lagos and stole several household items such as generating sets, gas cylinder, standing fan, mattresses and rug, among others, valued at about N500,000.

“Based on actionable intelligence, the prime suspect was arrested, and upon interrogation, he admitted that he committed the alleged crime with one other now at large. His admission led to the recovery of all the items stolen from one Lawal Aliu, who is the criminal receiver.

“While investigation into the original complaint was still ongoing, intelligence received further revealed that the same principal suspect in this case, Ogunjembola Kehinde and his criminal gang was responsible for breaking and stealing of some electronic equipment at the newly inaugurated 100 bed Mother and Child Hospital, Iperu.

“When he (suspect) was confronted with this, he also admitted he committed the offence with his co-accomplice in the original case of burglary and stealing reported by Banjoko Kehinde.

“So far, three suspects have been arrested in connection with this case while efforts are ongoing aimed at apprehending other criminal receivers mentioned by the suspects with a view to recovering items allegedly sold to them,” Akinremi said.

Business, Lifestyle

Dapo Abiodun orders banks, companies in Ogun to disobey Buhari or have Certificate of Occupancy revoked

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Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun gave a directive to banks and other establishment operating in the state on Friday to accept old N1000 and N500 notes in defiance to the stance of the federal government.

He warned that commercial outlets who reject the old notes from customers would have their that the Certificate of Occupancy revoked.

The governor gave the warning in a series of tweets after riots ensued in some parts of the state.

It was earlier reported that riots broke out in Mowe and Ibafo axes, along Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Friday over the raging cash fiasco.Soldiers were then deployed to douse the riot.

Mr Abiodun reminded businesses in the state that the Supreme Court has ordered that the old naira notes remain legal tender to business transactions.

“The Ogun State Government will be revoking the Certificate of Occupancy, CofO of any corporation or store that rejects old Naira notes from members of the public in the State in exchange for goods and services.

“Commercial outlets are hereby reminded that there is an existing court order by the Supreme Court, the apex court in Nigeria, directing that old notes remain legal tender.”

The statement read.

On February 15, the Supreme Court asked Nigerians to continue spending the old naira notes.

On Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari said only the old N200 banknotes remain a legal tender until April 10 while N500 and N1,000 should be deposited in CBN designated centers across the country.

Mr Buhari’s failure to obey the Supreme Court ruling has elicited open confrontation by state governors including Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna, Umar Ganduje of Kano and Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, and others who urged citizens to discountenance CBN directives and continue to accept the old notes as legal tender.

Politics

Ogun State Governor Signs N472bn, 2023 Budget

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The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Thursday signed into law, the state’s 2023 Appropriation Bill.

Signing the N472,250,694,447.57 Appropriations Bill as passed earlier in the day by the State House of Assembly, Abiodun said he would ensure full implementation of all the items on the bill to sustain the momentum of ‘Building Our Future Together’ agenda of his administration.

Politics

Abiodun pledges to address LG workers’ challenges

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The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has assured local government employees across the state of speedy consideration of their request for the recruitment of new staff members into the local government system.

Abiodun said he would do that to address the lacuna that had been in place for many years following the retirement of some local government staff members.

The governor made the promise during an interaction with members of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees in Abeokuta, the state capital, on Thursday.

He said despite the challenges facing his administration due to the paucity of funds, he would continue to do his best to ensure that every section of the state and every local government had real development.

He said,

“We will look into the issue of consolidation and parity advocated for by some heads of local government agencies who want parity between them and permanent secretaries in state ministries.

“I promise to address the issue of leave bonuses, beginning from January 2023, and increase the allocations meant for the payment of pensions to local government workers.”

Lifestyle

Monarch’s son sends cultists to eliminate his father in Ogun

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Six suspected members of Eiye cult group were on Sunday, September 11 arrested by men of Ogun state Police command while attempting to kill a traditional ruler in his palace.

A statement released by SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, spokesperson of the state police command, gave the names of the suspects as Michael Ayodele, Monday Samuel, Ademola Matthew, Hammed Jelili, Ogundele Ojeh and Sunkanmi Fadina.

He said the suspects were arrested following a distress call received at Oja odan divisional headquarters from the Oba of Gbokoto land, Oba G.O Olukunle, at about 4:25 pm, that some cultists were about to kill him in his palace.

”Upon the distress call, the DPO Oja- Odan division, quickly mobilized his men and moved to the palace, where they met the hoodlums shooting sporadically within the palace.

The policemen engaged them in shootout and eventually subdued the cultists and got six amongst them arrested.

On interrogation, the arrested suspects confessed been members of the dreaded Eiye confraternity.

They also informed the police that, it was the son of the Oba who is now at large that invited them to come and eliminate his father because of an unresolved issue the Oba has been having with his mother. ”Oyeyemi said.

The police spokesperson added that Items recovered from them include one locally made double barrel pistol, two live cartridges and one expended cartridge, while the son of the Oba who has taken to flight was said to have escaped with another gun belonging to the group.

He added that the state Commissioner of Police, CP Lanre Bankole has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to State Criminal Investigation Departments for discreet investigation with the view to charge them to court on the conclusion of the investigation.

The CP also ordered a massive manhunt for the fleeing son of the Oba in order to bring him to justice.

Lifestyle

Father of six rapes 17-year-old daughter in Ogun

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Men of the Ogun State Police command have arrested a 46-year-old man, Olusegun Oluwole, for allegedly having carnal knowledge of his daughter at Amolaso, in the Abeokuta area of the state.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the suspect’s daughter was asleep when he sneaked into her room and reportedly raped her.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Abimbola Oyeyemi, in a statement on Sunday, said the suspect was arrested following a complaint lodged by the victim at the Ibara Police Station.

Oyeyemi added that the victim, who was accompanied by some So-Safe-Corps’ men, reported that she was sleeping in a room at Amolaso, Abeokuta, when her father raped her around 11.30pm.

He said, “The victim said, having observed that others were fast asleep, the father suddenly grabbed her and forcefully had sex with her with a threat to kill her if she refused to allow him.

“Upon the report, the DPO Ibara division, CSP Bernard Egbondiya, quickly detailed his detectives to the scene, where the suspect was promptly arrested.

“On interrogation, the father of six, who confessed to the crime, pleaded for forgiveness, claiming not to know what came over him when he committed the crime.”

The PPRO, however, said the state Commissioner of Police, Lanre Bankole, has ordered the transfer of the suspect to State Criminal Investigation Department for further investigation and possible prosecution while the victim was taken to general hospital for medical treatment.

Lifestyle

Inspector, two others killed as Police engage bandits in shootout in Ogun

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The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the death of an Inspector, Omolayo Olajide, who was gunned down during a shootout with gunmen suspected to be bandits.

The State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who confirmed this in a statement on Wednesday, said two of the bandits were also killed in the gun battle which happened on Tuesday.

Oyeyemi said police operatives attached to the Ayetoro Division had received a distress call that a group of bandits were attacking some Fulani herdsmen at Saala Orile forest.

“Upon receiving the distress call, the DPO of Ayetoro, CSP Bernard Ediogboyan, immediately led his men and operatives of the Joint security Intervention squad (JSIS) to the scene.

“On sighting the policemen, the bandits opened fire on them and the policemen returned ‘fire-for-fire’.

“At the end of the encounter which lasted for about twenty minutes, two amongst the bandits were shot dead while others escaped with varying degrees of gunshot injuries.

“Regrettably, an Inspector of Police, by name Omolayo Olajide, lost his life during the gun duel,” Oyeyemi said.

He listed some of the items recovered from the bandits to include three locally-made guns, 16 live cartridges, assorted criminal charms, one cutlass, one small phone and an unregistered Bajaj motorcycle.

Politics

Southwest governors join Buhari to commission projects in Ogun

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Governors in the six South-West region of Nigeria have joined President Muhammadu Buhari on his one-day visit to Ogun State for the commissioning of five projects by the state governments.

The governors in attendance at the ongoing commissioning ceremony are: Ogun state governor, Dapo Abiodun; Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State; Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti State), Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo State), and Gboyega Oyetola (Osun State). Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo state was represented by his deputy, Rauf Olaniyan.

Other dignitaries in attendance include Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State; and former governors of Ogun state, including Chief Olusegun Osoba, Gbenga Daniel, and Senator Ibikunle Amosun.

The President is commissioning the 14km Epe/ Ijebu-ode Expressroad, Ogun Gateway City at Sagamu interchange and the 42km Abeokuta/ Sagamu road.

Other projects to be commissioned include two housing projects. 527 units of a low and medium Housing Scheme at Kobape and the high-brow, 83 duplexes at the Kings Court Estate at Oke Mosan in Abeokuta, the state capital.

Buhari, while speaking at the ceremony in Ijebu Ode hailed the state governor for his infrastructural development efforts since he became governor in 2019.

“The last time I was here was in 2019 to campaign for him as our party’s candidate for governor. I must say, so much have changed since then. I wonder how he could deliver the projects despites the constraints caused by coronavirus,” Buhari stated.

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Ogun police arrests notorious serial killer, cultist

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The Ogun State Police Command has arrested an alleged notorious serial killer and suspected member of the Eiye confraternity, Sulaiman Ganiyu, who was said to have been on the “wanted list” of the command.

This was disclosed in a statement on Wednesday by the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi.

According to Oyeyemi, the suspect was arrested on Sunday following a distress call from the Itamerin Comprehensive High School, Ago-Iwoye that the suspect came to the school premises and started shooting continuously.

He said the suspect was reported to be shooting to protest against the beating of a student said to be his younger brother

He words: “Upon the distress call, the DPO Ago-Iwoye, CSP Paul Omiwole led his patrol team to the school, but before their arrival, the suspect had run away.

He was subsequently traced to his hideout on Imosan Street, Oru-Ijebu, where he was eventually apprehended. On interrogation, he confessed to being a leading member of the Eiye confraternity.

“He confessed further that he was the one who killed one Awokale Olusegun, aka Lala, on February 27, 2020, over a supremacy battle following which he was declared wanted by the police.

“He also confessed to being responsible for the death of one Babasco and one Dapo at Ijebu-Igbo in 2015 during a clash between his group and the Aiye cult.”

Meanwhile, Oyeyemi said further investigation revealed that the suspect was the brain behind a series of violent cult clashes in Ago-Iwoye, Awa-Ijebu, Oru-Ijebu, Ilaponu and Ijebu-Igbo, in the recent past.

He noted that the Commissioner of Police, Edward Ajogun, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation and prosecution.

Politics

Ogun Deputy Speaker impeached days after arrest, detention

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The embattled Deputy Speaker of Ogun Assembly, Dare Kadiri, representing Ijebu North State Constituency 2, has been impeached for alleged “gross misconduct.” He was impeached on Thursday morning during plenary.

This comes after about 22 lawmakers signed a petition for his removal last week, and was arrested and detained on Monday, at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ogun State Police Command, following reports that he coordinated thugs who carried out series of attacks on the homes of some politicians, at the Ijebu North Local Government Area.

The Command had said the arrest and detention had no political undertone, claiming that Kadiri was trying to make the world see it from that angle. Also, the Command said Secretary to the State Government, Tokunbo Talabi, had no hand in his arrest.

Police Public Relations Officer, Ogun State Police Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the Deputy Speaker was arrested and detained for alleged criminal invasion of, and attacks on, some politicians homes in Ijebu, including that of the SSG’s father.

He said: “On the 20th of February 2021, the command received a complaint from one Mrs. Olabode Adegbesan of No. 6 Ayegbami street Awa ijebu who reported at Awa ijebu police station that, while she was at home at about 12noon, some people led by the Deputy speaker invaded their home, throwing stone into the house and calling out her husband Hon. Kunle Adegbesan to come out to be dealt with.

In the process, the hoodlums vandalized the window glasses of the house before they left with threat to come back with more violence. Not quite an hour after the first report, one comrade Akeem Temitope Akilo also came to report that, he was at the house of the SSG’s father when the deputy speaker led some people to the house at about 12:55 pm, vandalized the window glasses and removed the APC flag hoisted therein and took it away.”

Also, he said at about 1:30pm of the same day, one Otunba Adetohun Oduwole reported that Kadiri led some thugs to her house and destroyed the front door of the house as well as window glasses before they left.

While investigation into all the reports was going on, one Hon. Yinusa Adekunle reported that the register been used for the APC registration exercise has been forcefully seized by one Hon. Abagun Yinusa.

“This prompted the DPO Awa ijebu to visit the house of the said Hon.Abagun for the purpose of recovering the seized register. On getting there, the deputy speaker arrived the scene with about twenty men in two buses and descended heavily on the complainant, Hon Yinusa Adekunle, beat him mercilessly and almost killed him,” he added.

Ripples Nigeria had reported the moves to sack him, after an ad-hoc Committee was set up by the Speaker, Kunle Oluomo, to investigate the allegations against Kadiri.

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Herdsmen attack woman, cut off finger, shatter jaw in Ogun

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A woman in the Ijebu North local government area of Ogun State, Morenike Salami, is currently battling for her life after some marauding herdsmen attacked her while visiting her building site and in the process, cut off one of her fingers and shattered her jaw.

The attackers, said to be about eight in number, had reportedly waylaid their victim’s car and while she attempted to make a quick reverse, was caught and attacked.

The victim was said to have been taken to a few hospitals including the state-owned Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, but was rejected before she was taken to the Lagos State University Hospital, Ikeja, before she could get treatment.

In a viral video on social media on Saturday, a female voice was heard asking the daughter of the victim a few questions about the attack.

Replying, the daughter said:

“She (my mother) was going to her site in Idofe after a road that leads to Oru along Quarry. She said she saw some cattle while she was driving on the road and as she made a quick attempt to reverse, she was surrounded by some Fulani men who emerged from the bush.

She said they were about eight and the first thing they did was to shoot at all the four tyres and later went to block her car at the front. One of them carried a gun and wanted to shoot her. She begged him but he went ahead and shot her, removing one of her fingers.

My mother said she pretended as if she had died. One of her fingers was blown away by the bullets. She said she pretended as if she was dead. So, they went back into the bush. She said she managed to get down from the car after waiting for them to go.

“After she managed to alight from the car, she saw a tipper lorry and flagged it down. The driver rescued her and took her to Oru but she was rejected. We went to the general hospital but she was also rejected. When we got to OSUTH , they also said there was no space.”

Confirming the incident, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Abimbola Oyeyemi, said:

“Those people have a piece of land between Oru and Ago Iwoye. They went to inspect the land. One Alhaja who was going with them had excused herself with the promise that she would join them on the land.

“On getting to the land, they discovered that some Fulanis were attacking a labourer hired to clear the land in question. Those people immediately ran to those in the neighbourhood and in the process, the Fulanis left the victim and took to their heels.

“Unknown to the Alhaja, on her way to join the people, the Fulanis laid in ambush for her and opened fire on the vehicle she was driving. The woman was hit by a bullet and the Fulanis, who perpetrated the crime, ran away.

“When the police were informed, they went to the scene and could not find any of them but they saw the cattle they left behind. The police, in conjunction with the local vigilante group and hunters didn’t allow the cattle to leave the spot.

“Around 10pm, three Fulani men came to the spot with the aim of taking away the cattle and the police apprehended them. They have been transferred to the police headquarters in Eleweran. They have strong connection to the crime.”

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