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Original Post Date: 2011-01-05 Time: 14:00:04 Posted By: News Poster
By Dele Ogunyemi
Ibadan – SENATE Leader Teslim Folarin and three others were yesterday remanded in Agodi Prisons, Ibadan, Oyo State, in connection with the last Thursday’s murder of the factional leader of the state National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Alhaji Lateef Salako (a.k.a Eleweomo).
This was after they were arraigned at an Iyaganku Chief Magistrate Court on a two-count charge of conspiracy and murder of Eleweomo at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) suspended Congress held at the IDC Primary School ground, Olunloyo, in Ona Ara Local Government Area of the state.
This happened as the Commissioner of Police in Oyo State, Alhaji Baba Adisa Bolanta, yesterday assured members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) serving in the state that there is no tension any where in the state and enjoined them not to create any.
Arraigned alongside Senator Folarin were three other persons – Ramoni Jaiyeola Bankole, Olaide Raji and Ismaila, loyalists of the embattled Senate Leader.
Folarin was brought to the courtroom at exactly 11.20 am in his Peugeot 406 saloon car amid tight security. The three others were separately brought to the court by the police.
The Senate Leader who on Monday morning hearkened to the invitation on him by the Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Bolanta, was later detained at the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Iyaganku after writing statement on what transpired last Thursday at the IDC Primary School venue of the PDP suspended congress.
Members of the PDP Coalition against the second term bid of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, who stayed all through Monday night with Folarin at Iyaganku, included Senator Lekan Balogun, Hon. Ayo Adeseun, Elder Wole Oyelese, Alhaji Yekinni Adeojo, Sharafadeen Abiodun Ali, among others.
They also accompanied him to the Chief Maagistrate Court where he was arraigned on yesterday morning.
As at 7 am yesterday, hundreds of political associates and supporters of the Senate Leader had besieged Iyaganku SCID in solidarity while it took security agents hectic time in controlling the human and vehicular traffic that accompanied him to the Magistrate Court, a few metres away, where he was subsequently arraigned.
When the two-count charge of conspiracy and murder against the Senate Leader and the three others was read to the accused, the immediate past President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, leading 14 other lawyers for the Senate Leader and the three others, told the court that it lacked the jurisdiction to hear the case.
“The charge proffered against the accused persons is not within the jurisdiction of your court,” Akeredolu told the court, saying that the only charge that could be before the court could at best be a holden charge and not murder.
No plea was taken by the Chief Magistrate Fatima Baderu, who simply stated that in view of the nature of the offence, the case would have to be adjourned and it was consequently adjourned till Friday, Januray 14, 2011.
But the lead defence counsel for the four accused persons, Akeredolu, pleaded that his clients be remanded in prison custody pending the transfer of the case.
Eventually, Folarin and the three other accused persons were taken away from the premises of the court about noon in an Hilux van belonging to the Prison authorities enroute the Agodi Prisons.
Former PDP Deputy National Chairman (South), who is also presently a governorship aspirant in the party, Alhaji Yekini Adeojo, could not control his emotion as the Senate Leader boarded the Prisons van. The PDP chieftain, who broke down and sobbed uncontrollably, became more worried when he learnt that Senator Folarin will be in Agodi Prisons for the next few days before his bail will be effected.
Akeredolu later told inquisitive newsmen that “there is no way we can stop the appearance of Senator Folarin at the Chief Magistrate Court.”
According to the former NBA President, his team agreed on the arraignment at the Magistrate Court rather than the High Court “as we do not want any uproar and argument now. That was why we agree that he should be brought to the Magistrate Court,”
Akeredolu also said he would approach the High Court any moment from now and file the necessray papers to secure bail for his clients.
Also speaking with journalists, the Leader of the PDP Coalition forces, Senator Balogun said Folarin was not supposed to have reported to the Police State Headquarters on Monday, which was a public holiday.
Stating that the Coalition would hold a rally on January 15 for the removal of the State’s Commissioner of Police, Alhaji Bolanta, Senator Balogun said Bolanta should be transferred from the State “because he is the person behind the crisis in Oyo State and Bolanta is a strong supporter Governor Alao-Akala.”
Meanwhile, the state Commissioner of Police, addressing a sensitization workshop for corps members and NYSC staff on the forthcoming general elections in the country, said: “We do not have any crisis in Oyo State.”
Speaking through the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) for the Command, Mr. Ajimuda Olatunji, a Superintendent of Police (SP), the Commissioner, however, lamented that “thuggery is already becoming a profession in Nigeria, although a negative profession,” and advised NYSC members against being recruited into political thuggery by disgruntled politicians.
His words: “Please, do not take part in thuggery. Thuggery is already becoming a profession in Nigeria, although a negative profession. Thou shall not partake in thuggery. Don’t let anybody corrupt you as the future is greater than today. If you allow anybody to destroy you, you will regret it forever. The law is no respecter of persons. Don’t get involved in criminality or disorder. But I still repeat, there is no tension or crisis in Oyo State.”
Speaking earlier, the NYSC State Director, Mr. Gabriel Ibe, a lawyer said the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the NYSC authorities had already signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the mode of participation of serving corps members in the 2011 general elections.
Ibe said while elections in Nigeria had always been a thorny issue tearing the nation apart, it was resolved that the involvement of youth corps members, who are regarded as enlightened and knowledgeable species, would make the conduct of elections better in the next dispensation just as he observed that the experiment yielded positive dividends at the Kogi State re-run election in 2008.
Ibe then advised all youth corps in the State participating in the 2011 general elections to display sense of patriotism and guard against electoral fraud in all its ramifications.
The NYSC Director General, Brigadier General Maharazu Tsiga, who was represented at the workshop by a top official from the headquarters, Mrs. Vivian Omeruo, also urged the corps members to justify the confidence which the nation reposed in them by ensuring free and fair elections in the country this year.
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Original date published: 5 January 2011
Source: http://allafrica.com/stories/201101050678.html?viewall=1