Crime

Pandemonium in Ondo Community over Alleged Killing by Police

By Web News 555

Pandemonium was let loose at Kajola Community in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State yesterday as youths in their hundreds mobilized to burn the police station in the area over police recklessness, leading to the death of three persons including a community Baale.

The angry mobs, amongst other grievances against the police, thronged the Police Divisional Headquarters in Kajola for killing their indigenes at the police checkpoints in the area, along Lagos/Benin Expressways on Saturday evening.

They dumped the three corpses at the Police Divisional Headquarters, Kajola, chanting series of protest songs to register their grievances and declared that they do not want to see police in the community again.

The victims, David Olowofeyekun, Gbenga Abayomi and Kola Akinduro, who was the Head of Korede Village, were on a motorcycle and heading home from their farms.

The community leader, Chief Oloruntobi Maiyegun who spoke with journalists on phone, recounted that he had to spring into action the moment he heard that the people were mobilizing to burn the police station.

But the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Mrs Funmilayo Odunlami, dispelled the recklessness report against the police, saying that the deceased flouted the traffic law and incidentally had an accident.

Leke Adegbite

Agriculture

Ondo Farmers Protest Activities of Investment Company in Ore

By Web News 509

There was confusion in Ore, Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State on Thursday as two local farmers suddenly slumped while their farms were being bulldozed at the order of the state government through the investment company that just acquired the ownership of the forest reserves.

The incident occurred in the Sifawu and Ominla areas of the town.

The farmers were, however, rescued by their colleagues who later staged a protest against the development, demanding compensation for the affected farmers.

Positive FM gathered that the farmers had accused the company of breaching the terms of an agreement reached by the two parties and vowed to disrupt activities of the company until their interests were met.

In an interview, spokesman for the farmers, Mr Segun Ebiwonjumi and Mr Raphael Ayenitaju lamented the incident saying many of their colleagues had died in the last 6 months due to the hardship from the company in charge of forest reserves.

The farmers appealed to the government to prevail on the company to carve out about 1000 hectares for sharing among the farmers to guarantee peace.

Banji Nejo

Crime

Man Docked For Impregnating Own Daughter

By Web News 588

A Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ore, Ondo State has remanded 36-year-old Peter Moses in the Correctional Centre (formerly Nigerian Prisons) for allegedly raping and impregnating his biological daughter.

The accused person, Moses was said to have committed the offence between November, 2020 and January 2021 at Asewele Korede Camp via Ore in Odigbo Local Government Area of the state.

The Police Prosecutor, Inspector Jimoh Amuda who told the court that the accused person had committed punishable offence said, investigations had just commenced into the matter.

He asked the court for adjournment to enable the police complete investigations and seek legal advice from the Ministry of Justice.

The accused person who pleaded guilty to the two charges leveled against him, however, urged the court to temper justice with mercy.

The Presiding Magistrate, F.O. Omofolarin, thereafter, ordered Moses to be remanded in the Correctional Centre pending the outcome of the Department of Public Prosecutions, DPP legal advice and adjourned the case till February 21, this year for mention, to enable police to complete their investigations.

Leke Adegbite