Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, loyal to the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Wednesday protested against the alleged incessant arrest of its members by the police in the state.
Members of the APC faction stormed the headquarters of Osun State Police Command in Osogbo, protesting the alleged bias of the operatives against the group.
The protesters led by Rasaq Salinsile, the chairman of Aregbesola’s faction, carried placards with different inscriptions.
They accused the Commissioner of Police, Wale Olokode, of supporting the governor, Adegboyeg Oyetola.
They also requested that the CP should be replaced.
The members of the group stormed the command with different placards with inscriptions like: “Freedom of Association is not a crime”, “CP Olokode, stop being Oyeyola’s stooge”, “Stop sending our members to prison”, “Egalitarian society is our demand, be just to all” among others.
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In his words, “It is a sad tale that your Command, without any of your men in the Minister’s convoy, as it pleases your master at Okefia Government House, concluded that “Minister brought in hoodlums to disturb the peace of the state.”
Salinsile claimed that the command is incapable of living up to the billings of their core duty as protector of lives and property of all citizens.
“The malaise of serving the purpose of only Governor Oyetola and his men, CP Wale Olokode has blinded your Command from going after criminals who have invaded the Osun landscape big time since you assumed duty as the Commissioner of Police in the state,” it said.
“That is why there are so many cases of unresolved kidnapping, murder (especially that of OAU MBA student, Timothy Adegoke that has to be taken out of your Command because it was obvious you have been compromised), ritual cases, cult war e.t.c.”
The group, however, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order an investigation into the attack on Aregbesola and direct the Inspector General of Police to post Olokode out of Osun.
