Police To Quiz Osun Ex-Commissioner,Bashiru Over Murder Attempt On Diekola

  ….As Amnesty International backs Complainants

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>The Zonal 11 headquarters of the Nigeria Police Force which comprises

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>of Ondo, Osun and Oyo, has concluded arrangement to quiz the immediate

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>past Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice,Mr. Ajibola Bashiru

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>over attempted murder of Alhaji Fatai Oyedele Diekola,Alhaji Segun

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>Adekilekun and Alhaji Sikiru Lawal in September this year at Alekuwodo

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>area of Osogbo.

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>The Assistant Inspector General incharge of the Zone,Ibrahim Muhammed

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>gave the directive upon received the Petition Letter dated 9th

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>October,2018,wrote by the Law office of Bukola Onifade & Co,alleging

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>that the Personal Assistant to the Ex-Commissioner, Teslim Olaiya on

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>the directive of his boss led thugs popularly known as “State boys” to

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>attack the complainants on 24th Day of September, 2018.

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>The Petitioner also forwarded the copies of the Petition Letter to the

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>Inspector General of Police(IGP),US Consular-General,Amnesty

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>International and host of other concerned organizations for their

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>notification and necessary action on the burning issue.

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>It was gathered that the AIG had directed the officer-in-charge to do

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>the case diligently by ensuring that all the culprits including their

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>Sponsors,Mr. Bashiru ,were brought to justice ,just as Amnesty

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>International in a signed Letter by its Director,Osai Ojigho, with

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>reference number:AIN/0282/101/18, thrown its weight behind the

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>complainants on any form of legal means to seek redress on the

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>Commenting on the issue,a human rights activist,Comrade Adeniyi,Alimi

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>Sulaiman, commended the Zonal AIG for prompt professional action on

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>the Petition by ensuring justice for all the parties in the

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>matter,urging the Police boss to effect the immediate arrest of all

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>the culprits,no matter whose ox is gored.

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>Comrade Sulaiman maintained that Mr. Bashiru as a legal Practitioner

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>should respect himself by honouring the Police invitation to explain

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>what he(Bashiru) knew about the dastard act against fellow human on

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>The rights activist revealed that Mr. Bashiru has been running

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>helter-skelter to evade the Police arrest on this heinous act but no

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>sinner shall go unpunished in order to serve as a deterrent to  others

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>who might have similar tendency in the future,noting that culprits had

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>committed an offence contrary to Section

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>330-338,355,357,364,366,382,383,390,402,403, 516 and 518 Criminal Code

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>Act Caps “C38” Laws of the Federation 2004 and Section 33-35,41 and

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>42,Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 as altered in

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>According to the Petition: “That on the  24th day of

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>September,2018,Our clients were going to the Hospital(Morning Star

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>Hospital) at Akinlade Street,Alekuwodo Area,Osogbo, for medical

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>check-up in a Toyota Corolla Car belonging to Alhaji Segun Adekilekun

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>with Registration Number:LND 340 DS,saw some hoodlums led by Bashiru’s

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>Personal Assistant,Teslim Olaiya with Phone number: 08033841858,they

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>were armed with all sorts of dangerous weapons.

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>”These hoodlums collected the Mobile Phones of Our Clients,their

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>monies and destroyed the vehicle of Alhaji Adekilekun beyond repair

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>and the Car worth N2,400,000(Two Million ,Four Hundred Thousand

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>Naira). That their unlawful attack conduct however put Our Clients in

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>severe psychological trauma which since that time they have

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>patronizing hospitals for treatment up till date.

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>”That Our Clients thereafter discovered that the Patrol Van is the

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>Escort of Mr. Ajibola Bashiru, the then Osun State Attorney-General

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p dir=”ltr” style=”overflow-wrap: break-word; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;”>and Commissioner for Justice which was part of the vehicle used to attack our clients by the Hoodlums”.

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