Police quiz 8 staff of Osun College of Education over alleged abduction

About eight staff of Osun State College of Education, Ila-Orangun, have been quizzed by the detectives from Osun state Police Command over a petition accusing them of plan to abduct the Registrar of the institution, Mr. Aderiola Adeoti.

Two of those accused in the petition as arrowheads of the plot were Mr. Segun Onifade, the institution’s Chairman, College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), and Chairman, Senior Staff Union of Colleges of Education in Nigeria (SSUCEN), Ila chapter, Mr. Akintunde Ojo.

There was, however, a mild drama when those alleged and the petitioner appeared before the police, as Adeoti denied ever writing petition on his planned abduction by the staffers.

Reliable security sources told reporters that Adeoti, who was invited based on the petition stunned everyone present when he claimed he did not sign any petition and than the one on the petition was not his.

A source present at the scene of the “drama” said: “the man (Registrar) dissociated himself from the petition. He said his signature was forged. He advised police authorities to disregard it. But he wants them to fish out the person that forged his signature”.

Security sources further said two of those alleged, Segun Onifade and Akintunde Ojo, when asked to comment, accused provost of the college, Professor Isaac Oyewole, of writing the petition.

Onifade was quoted as saying: “Registrar was said to have written the petition, the case file showed that the Provost was the complainant and it was his mobile number that appeared under the name and signature of the Registrar”.

“We also realised that each time the Investigating Police Officers (IPO) called the Registrar (as the complainant) to get clarifications, the Provost, Professor Isaac Oyewole, was the one who took the calls. This is absurd and barbaric, given the nature of the allegation involved”.

The state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Femi Oyeleye, confirmed that the command received a petition from the College and assured that police would get to the root of the matter.