Lifestyle

#EndSARS Anniversary: Ondo Youths Hold Procession In Akure

By Web News 662

Nigerian youths on Wednesday trooped to the streets of the Ondo State capital of Akure to hold peaceful procession to mark the first memorial anniversary of the #EndSARS protest.

In Akure, business and normal official activities in places like Oyemekun road, Oja Oba to Alagbaka area continued undisrupted even as security operatives provided protection for the youths who were marking the first anniversary of the #EndSARS protest.

The protesters matched from Old Garage in Akure and ended the #EndSARS Remembrance Day at the Ondo State Police Headquarters on Igbatoro Road where the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Bolaji Salami addressed them and attributed the delay in the implementation of the panel report on the last year’s protest to paucity of funds on the part of the Ondo State government. 

Mr. Salami promised to deliver the demands of the #EndSARS protesters to Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.

Some residents who spoke with our reporter on the #EndSARS anniversary are of the opinion that nothing had really changed as the injustice that was the main reason for the protest still existed in the society.

Leke Adegbite

Crime

Ondo Police Parades 15 Suspected Robbers, Rapists

By Web News 773

The Ondo state Police Command has paraded fifteen suspects in connection with armed robbery, gang-raping, attacking and snatching of motorcycles in the state.

Parading the suspects at the command’s headquarters, Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Bolaji Salami said the suspects were arrested at different locations in Akure and other parts of the state.

According to the Police Commissioner, twelve armed robbers and three suspected rapists were arrested while nine stolen motorcycles, one pump action gun as well as one truck and its content were recovered from the suspects.

Mr Salami noted that his detectives swung into action and in the process apprehended 27-year-old Gbenga Kikiowo and 25-year-old Aladeloye Tope at Oke-Aro area of Akure.

The CP said with the proactive nature of the police in Ondo State, an eight-man robbery syndicate that specializes in snatching articulated vehicles with its contents at gun-point were nabbed by the police.

The police commissioner said all the suspects would be charged to court immediately, as some of the suspects confessed to the offence during an interview with newsmen.

One of the suspects, a 27-year-old, Gbenga Kikiowo, said he had started robbery at the tender age of seven years at his home town in Igbara-Oke and has been jailed severally. Leke Adegbite

Crime

Ondo Police Begins Investigation Into 40-Year-Old’s Assassination

By Web News 737

The Ondo State Police Command has confirmed the alleged assassination of a forty-year-old man, Mr Babatunde Adeluka Olubasa by unknown persons inside a popular hotel at Ijapo Area of Akure. 

He was alleged to have been shot dead inside the hotel premises where he lodged last Saturday, after he was trailed to the hotel by three armed men after attending a function in Akure.

He was shot at the bar of the hotel where he relaxed to take a drink.

Confirming the incident, the Ondo State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Mr Tee-Leo Ikoro, said it was a case of assassination.

Mr Ikoro disclosed that the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Bolaji Salami, had ordered a full-scale investigation into the killing, even as the entire premises of the hotel is now deserted.

Leke Adegbite

Crime

#EndSARS Protests: Ondo Police Arrests Looters And Arsonists

By Web News 840

The Ondo State Police Command says two policemen and one civilian were killed during last week’s violence that engulfed the state amidst #EndSARS protest.

The state Commissioner of Police, Bolaji Salami, who confirmed this in Akure, while parading eighteen suspected looters and arsonists, explained that the two policemen were killed in Ore and Ondo town.

Mr Salami said the victim in Ore was mobbed while the policeman in Ondo was killed and burnt inside his car.

He said the civilian casualty was one of the three-man gang that attempted to rob a new generation bank in Ondo town.

Leke Adegbite

Security

Lock Down: AIG Zone-Eleven Visits Southwest Region

By Web News 817

The Assistant Inspector-General of Police, AIG, in charge of Zone-Eleven, Mr Bashir Makama has started visiting states in the southwest region to monitor the level of compliance with the government’s directive on COVID-19 lockdown.

While on a visit to Ondo State, Mr Makama said that his coming to the state was to assess the situation and challenges of his men deployed to borders.

On the alleged bribery at borders, the AIG warned that any policemen caught would be dealt with.

In a remark, the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Mr Undie Adie expressed satisfaction with level of people’s compliance with dusk to dawn curfew declared in Ondo state by Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu.

Leke Adegbite