The Osun State Command of the Nigerian Security and Civil
Defence Corps (NSCDC) The Osun NSCDC and the Osun Police Command have disagreed
over the alleged attack on the convoy of Rauf Aregbesola.
Osun NSCDC, had in a reaction, assured residents of the
State of adequate security amidst the mayhem caused by some unscrupulous
elements in the State capital on Monday evening.
Giving the assurance via a statement signed by the Command’s
Public Relations Officer, Atanda Olabisi on Monday, the Osun NSCDC Commandant,
Emmanuel Ocheja, who noted that the corps would continue to render excellent
and all inclusive security services in the State, added that this was in line
with the statutory mandates and functions of the corps.
Ocheja also stressed that professionalism and impartiality
will be the watchword of the NSCDC at all times during its operations.
While acknowledging that earlier in the evening, the convoy
of Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior was attacked by political thugs in
Osogbo, he explained that security details attached to him were able to
disperse them and bring about normalcy to the area.
On its part, the Osun State Police Command has also
described the shooting by the Minister’s convoy as conduct likely to cause
breach of the public peace.
In a press release signed by Yemisi Opalola, the Command
Police Public Relations Officer and made available on Tuesday
morning, the Command revealed that normalcy has since returned to the area and
the situation is under close monitoring.
It, however, revealed that no casualty was recorded but that
after the departure of the minister and his team, the police recovered 13 empty
shells of G-3, assault and AK-47 rifles along the road.
The police also maintained that some of the security escorts
of the minister started shooting sporadically into the air without any
provocation or attack.
According to the press release, “The Minister of Interior,
Mr Rauf Aregbesola was moving in a convoy of personnel of NSCDC, correctional
service, immigration as well as some unidentified armed people suspected to be
political thugs along Orisunbare/MDS Road, Osogbo. Suddenly, some of the
security escorts of the minister started shooting sporadically into the air
without any provocation nor attack.”
Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior had been in
Ijebu-Jesa to attend a critical stakeholders’ meeting of the All Progressives
Congress (APC).
At the meeting, the former governor of Osun had thrown his
weight behind Moshood Adeoti, the aspirant of the Rasaq Salinsile faction of
the party.
His convoy was later attacked as he made his way through the
Station Road area of the town on Monday evening, with exchange of gunshots.
The State government, after the incident, made an
announcement, noting that it had credible reports that some misguided cowards
invaded Osogbo with armed thugs with intent to foment trouble.
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