Kwara CP Declares Muslim Cleric Who Threatened Osun Woman, Husband Wanted Terrorist

Kwara State Commissioner of Police, Ebunoluwarotimi Adelese, has declared a Muslim cleric, Salam Ayodeji, as a terrorist who is wanted by the state Police command for allegedly threatening traditionalists in Ilorin.

Adelese gave the family three days to produce the controversial cleric, adding that the command has also begun a manhunt for his arrest.

OSUN DEFENDER gathered that the suspect had visited the traditionalists, one Tajudeen and his wife, in their shop located at Alaran compound, Ilorin, where the couple sell television sets.

The Muslim cleric, in a trending video, had visited a shop said to be owned by a female traditionalist, where fairly used TV sets were sold in Alaran community in Ilorin.

He accused the traditionalists of holding traditional religion (Isese) meetings inside the shop using the selling of fairly used TV sets as a coverup.

He also told the Alaran community, which rented the shop to the female shop occupant and her people, as shown in the video, to issue a quit notice to the tenant and refund their rent.

The cleric, in the video, also gave a week’s deadline for the people to vacate the shop and threatened that his return with others in his group would be catastrophic

Speaking during a meeting with the families of the suspect, Alaran family and the traditionalists, yesterday, the Police Commissioner directed the family of Ayodeji to produce the suspect for an alleged offence of terrorism and defamation against the Police.

The police boss, who reprimanded the family of Ayodeji for not enlightening their son against what she described as his criminal behaviour, said his attitude was capable of causing the breakdown of law and order in the state.

She said: “Is it because Tajudeen’s wife is from Osun State? Does that mean she’s a traditionalist? Or are there no Muslims in Osun State?

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The state Police commissioner also berated Alaran family for driving the couple out of the area and for refunding the rent of the shop to the couple against their wish.

She asked the family of Ayodeji to look for their son and produce him to the command from wherever he might have escaped to latest tomorrow, just as she said the command had begun manhunt for him.

In their reaction, the family members of Ayodeji said that they have been looking for the suspect since last Friday when he didn’t come home while his phone line had not been reachable.

Tajudeen, who said that he had resigned to faith and put the whole matter in God’s hand, added that the family of Ayodeji had pleaded with him for forgiveness.