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CSO: Labor Party Wants Police To Be Fair

 

Following renewed onslaught on its members by the men of the Ondo State police Command, the State chapter of the Labor Party has appealed to the Police highest command to prevail on the Ondo State Police Commissioner, Mr. Innocent Iluzuoke and his men to be fair to all parties in the State in the discharged of
their duties.


In a petition addressed to the Assistant Inspector General of Police, Zone 8, Osogbo, Mr. Sylvester Araba
entitled: “ONDO STATE POLICE COMMAND AND US, A CALL FOR FAIRPLAY” and signed by the State Chairman of the Party, Dr. Olaiya Oni, LP catalogued all the woes that had been visited on its members by the police in the State in the past two weeks while accusing the police of bias, called for the intervention of the police hierarchy to restore sanity in the overall image of the Nigerian Police Force.


Below is the full length of the Letter to the AIG for you to use as you wish.
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8th June, 2007 .

The Assistant Inspector General of Police,
AIG’s Office,
Osogbo,
Osun State .

ONDO STATE POLICE COMMAND AND US, A CALL FOR FAIRPLAY


We write to intimate you with happenings in the past few days in Ondo State as it affects men of the Ondo
State Police Command and our Party, the Labor Party (LP).



On Wednesday evening last week (May 30th), The chief Security Officer (CSO) to the State Governor, Mr.
Tunde Awanebi was shot dead by yet-to-be identified assassins. Before investigations by police could
commence, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state addressed a press Conference in which they accused our party of killing the CSO. Expectedly, we denied this spurious allegation and in the course of this, we raised several salient posers which we asked the police to investigate namely: that the late CSO
was reported to have been sacked earlier that day before he was shot dead; that he was, according to his wife, Mrs. Edith Awanebi, called on phone from his personal home to the Government House at about 7.00p.m that evening; that he left the Government House to the scene of his death; that he was reported to have received a called from the driver of the Chief of Staff (COS) Mr. Femi Agagu, who is the younger brother of the governor, Dr. Olusegun Agagu before his demise. This came to light when sympathizers dialed the phone number, which the deceased received last before he was killed.



By Friday, Mr. Femi Agagu (COS) granted an interview to The Nation newspaper (The Nation, Saturday June 2, pages 2 and 3) in which he directed the police to quiz Labor party leaders over the murder of Mr. Awanebi.
We responded by querying whether Mr. Agagu can give directives to the police or act as its spokesman. But
despite this, the Commissioner of police, Mr. Innocent Ilozuoke, by Monday asked his subordinates to invite Labor Party leaders to his office for interrogation. Unfortunately enough, no member of PDP, which first accused us, was invited. Also, the COS to the Governor was never quizzed. The police in Ondo state appear to have been compromised as we have had cause in the past before - during and after the April 2007
elections – to complain.



Again on Thursday (June 7th) men of the Ondo State Police Command got itself involved in another of its now familiar compromising stance by allowing themselves to be used to thwart the course of law! Led by Mr. Yemi Alao, the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of Ondo State, Mr. Michael Bodunde, the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of operations (AC-Operations) stormed the venue of the on-going verification exercise of INEC documents by Legal Team of the Labor Party.



In a Commando-like manner, the police sent everybody parking including, all INEC staff who scampered for safety. In the process, Mr. Yemi Alao ordered the police to seize all equipments being used by the Labor Party Legal Team for the exercise and even placed some Labour Party members under temporary
arrest and made them to write statements before they were released.



The Attorney General and justice Commissioner, Mr. Yemi Alao is a PDP leader, a party whose election at
the April polls is being contested by all the political parties in Ondo state, including our party, the Labor Party.



That Police Command, represented by whole Assistant Commissioner of police could allow itself to be
involved in such a compromising act is, to say the least, lamentable and a breach of the law he swore to
protect. Our party was duly given permission in form of court order to inspect all documents at the Ondo State INEC headquarters. I hereby attach that court order with this letter. So Mr. Bodunde’s action in aborting the exercise under the directive of an officer of a party (Mr. Yemi Alao) whose victory at the poll in question is being contested is a travesty of the law and is highly unacceptable.



The Labor Party has undergone what can be described as a ‘century of wrongs’ in the hands of the Ondo State Police Command acting at the behest of the PDP government of Dr. Agagu. It is time you called a halt in the interest of this state and the image of the police.


Signed
Dr. Olaiya Oni
Chairman
 
CC: Commissioner of Police, Ondo State.
Director, SSS, Ondo State.
O.C. CIB, Ondo State.

 

 
 
 
 
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