The State Safety Companies (SSS) has arrested a member of the Ogun State Home of Meeting, Damilare Bello of Sagamu Constituency 1, in connection to bloody clashes that claimed many lives early within the week within the lawmaker’s constituency.
Mr Bello is a member of the opposition Individuals’s Democratic Celebration (PDP).
The social gathering confirmed the arrest of Mr Bello, whereas condemning it as political intimidation of the opposition.
In a press release by its state spokesperson, Akinloye Bankole, the social gathering stated Mr Bello was arrested late on Wednesday by the SSS.
The PDP, nonetheless, condemned the arrest, accusing the governor of intimidating the opposition with the key police.
“As a lot as we don’t object to DSS or any safety company investigation into the Sagamu carnage which has allegedly claimed greater than 25 lives, we expect that the investigation isn’t being performed with optimum professionalism and sincerity.”
Claiming that nothing incriminating was present in Mr Bello’s residence on the time of his arrest, the social gathering alleged that “the entire thing is an orchestrated try to provide Hon Bello a foul identify simply to hold him.”
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“Additionally it is attention-grabbing that the Sagamu residence of the honourable member was totally vandalised earlier at present by some suspected APC-enabled thugs. The identical man who returned from London to Abeokuta the place he raised contributions on the ground of the home yesterday regarding safety issues in his constituency.
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“We’ve at all times held that the Sagamu killings are a direct fallout of the felony empowerment of cultists in opposition to the individuals by the APC.
“The onus is, nonetheless, on the DSS to rise above partisanship in its duties. The safety outfit is a creation of the legislation and shouldn’t be diminished to a mere instrument of a political witch hunt by each the governor and APC in opposition to perceived opponents.
“The trajectories of Messrs Femi Davies, Daud Olatunji, and not too long ago, Wale Adedayo are nonetheless recent in our reminiscences.
“As a law-abiding political group, our nice social gathering will work with the DSS, and certainly different safety businesses in guaranteeing peace and tranquillity in Ogun State, however we will additionally not fold our arms and watch anybody throw harmless members of the general public below the bus.”
The PDP charged the state authorities to look in Sagamu Native Authorities Space for the actual troublemakers.
The spokesperson of the SSS, Peter Afunanya, neither picked his name nor responded to textual content and Whatsapp messages despatched to him on the matter.
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