{"id":109305,"date":"2023-11-23T17:12:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=109305"},"modified":"2023-11-23T17:12:06","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:12:06","slug":"thugs-beat-ondo-commissioner-to-pulp-over-bursary-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/thugs-beat-ondo-commissioner-to-pulp-over-bursary-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Thugs beat Ondo Commissioner to pulp over bursary award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner representing Ondo Central in the Ondo State Oil Development Area Development Commission (OSOPADEC), Kehinde Akinrotoye, popularly known as \u2018BonsueAketi\u2019, has been hospitalised after he was beaten to pulp by hoodlums.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time hoodlums will be attacking a commissioner in the state in two months.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nIt will be recalled that in September, Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Bunmi Osadahun, was attacked over distribution of palliatives.<\/p>\n<p>Ondo State has been on auto-pilot without effective leadership since ill-health incapacitated the state governor, Rotimi Akeredolu.<\/p>\n<p>He has not come to office in months even after returning from a long medical tourism in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his obvious incapacitation,his deputy, Mr Lucky Aiyedatiwa, has not been allowed to function.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, concerted efforts are being made by the state House of Assembly to impeach him, thereby creating a yawning leadership vacuum.<\/p>\n<p>The thugs stormed the premises of OSOPADEC and disrupted the disbursement of bursary and scholarship award by the intervention agency.<\/p>\n<p>They shot sporadically into the air after preventing the ceremony from taking off.<\/p>\n<p>Staff of the agency and students scampered for safety.<\/p>\n<p>One of the staff who pleaded anonymity said the hoodlums came in hired vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The staff said the thugs targeted the Commissioner and beat him to pulp after they accused him of not being worthy of membership of the commission because he hails from a non-oil producing area.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that the vehicle that brought Akinrotoye was destroyed and vandalized by the hoodlums.<\/p>\n<p>Men of the Ondo State Police Command were called in to restore normalcy..<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioner representing Ondo Central in the Ondo State Oil Development Area Development Commission (OSOPADEC), Kehinde Akinrotoye, popularly known as \u2018BonsueAketi\u2019, has been hospitalised after he was beaten to pulp by&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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