Following a petition by 10 members of the National Assembly from Ogun State, the state Command of the State Security Service has arrested and questioned the Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Akeem Adeosun, popularly called Jango.
Also, no fewer than 47 other persons, many of whom are said to be close to the camp of Governor Ibikunle Amosun, have been listed for interrogation by the SSS over the recent spate of violence between rival factions of the ruling All Progressives Congress in the state.
Already, the SSS had two weeks ago interrogated the Chairman of Ewekoro Local Government, Dele Soluade, over the shooting which occurred at Wasimi penultimate Thursday when suspected hoodlums stormed an APC meeting organised by Senator Gbenga Obadara representing Ogun Central in the National Assembly.
The police orderly to the lawmaker, Sergeant Sunday Akinbode, and nine other persons sustained gunshot injuries in the melee. Akinbode was shot in the lower abdomen when he attempted to shield his principal from the hoodlums.
Our correspondent gathered that the NURTW chairman, who was said to have allegedly refused to honour an earlier invitation by the SSS, was arrested on Monday and whisked away to the Oke Mosan, Abeokuta office of the security agency where he was quizzed for about four hours.
While his interrogation lasted, SSS operatives were said to have obtained the fingerprints and taken the photographs of the NURTW chairman.
Adeosun was said to have been released on bail later and instructed to report daily to the SSS command office .
National Assembly members from the state had last week petitioned the SSS director-general, urging him to intervene and protect them from “serious danger in the state.”
SOURCE: The Punch.
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