AAC Carpets Adeleke For Appointing Omoyele As Amotekun Commander
- Says Appointment Inimical To Lives, Property Of Osun People
THE African Action Congress in Osun State has demanded the immediate removal of Adekunle Omoyele, the newly appointed Commander of Amotekun Corps in the state over alleged murder.
The AAC referred to a video of a woman who alleged that Omoyele ordered police personnel to kill her brother, Olalekan Abeedeen, over a rift that occurred during a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) meeting in 2022.
In the video interview with Oriyomi Hamzat on Agidigbo 88.7FM Ibadan, which was seen by OSUN DEFENDER, a sister of the deceased who identified herself as Rukayat alleged that some policemen working with Omoyele shot her brother dead and refused to release his body.
She said, “We had issues with Akogun about the party’s money after the governorship election. But the elders helped us to resolve it.
“After Alhaja Tawakaltu talked about what bothered her, my Mum also did the same. But Akogun’s driver started insulting my mum. The police from Division A came to resolve the matter and they settled it with Akogun that it was a party affair. They told him that he should have forfeited the money. We left the meeting after that.
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“But 30 minutes later, Akogun came back with some policemen and they told me they wanted to see me at their station. This was why my brother intervened in the matter. And he asked what happened between me and the police. That was why the police shot him dead.
“He said he could not tolerate anyone disrespecting him as a member of the royal family in the state.”
“After they killed my brother, people ran away. But he ordered the Police to pick up the corpse. Those who killed my brother were Police officers from Osogbo. They picked up his corpse and took it away,” the woman added.
OSUN DEFENDER learnt that two years after the incident, the deceased’s family had not gotten justice on the matter.
Omoyele was recently appointed as the Commander of the Amotekun Corps in the state.
Reacting, the AAC said the State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, could not claim ignorance of the situation because it was all in the news.
The party criticised the government for turning a blind eye to such criticisms; while nominating Omoyele to manage Amotekun.
The party said, “For instance, in a news released by the Vanguard online and quoted thus: ‘Mr. Bola Abimbola-Ige, counsel to Olalekan’s family, whose son, Abideen was allegedly murdered by Police operatives, yesterday, disclosed that the Chief Security Officer designate to Senator Ademola Adeleke, CSP Omoyele Adekunle, has reportedly confessed to killing Abideen.
“Abideen Olalekan and Kafayat, his younger brother’s wife were allegedly killed by operatives of the Commissioner of Police’s Tactical Unit headed by Omoyele after a row ensued over election largesse released by the Governor-elect, Adeleke.
“Based on the foregoing, it becomes a matter of duty to tell Mr. Governor that the appointment of Mr. Adekunle as the Commander of the Amotekun Corps is inimical to the lives and property of the people of Osun State.
“We suspect that this appointment was not done either based on merit or in line with the need to improve the security of lives and properties of Osun people, but in a bid to compensate Mr. Adekunle Omoyele for reasons still unclear to the public.
“We strongly condemn this appointment or any of such that has ever been or would be entrusted to Mr. Adekunle Omoyele.
“Therefore, Mr. Governor is not expected to have entrusted such position to (sic) individual of questionable character and this has always been our position as an ideological (sic) based political party, that all serial killer police officers should be relieved of their work and be prosecuted according to the human right law and international charter,” the party said.
AAC called on Governor Adeleke to immediately terminate the appointment of Mr. Adekunle.
It also called on Adeleke to “conduct a thorough investigation on this matter and other all other unprofessional conduct which Mr. Adekunle has been indicted, including the indictment by the Osun State EndSARS panel and if found guilty should be prosecuted instead of being politically compensated.
“That all characters involved in the Ede unrest should be investigated without bias and prosecuted accordingly to serve as a deterrent to other political gladiators who might want to use their political crest to undermine the peace of the state in the future.
“That Governor Ademola Adeleke should be mindful of individuals he would be entrusting with positions of service to the people of Osun State”.
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