The Oyo State Police Command has faulted the claim by a faction of the proscribed state council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers that the leadership crisis rocking the union has so far claimed over 200 persons.
The faction led by Alhaji Lateef Akinsola (a.k.a Tokyo) had on Tuesday brandished the casualty figure in a memorandum it submitted to the judicial panel of enquiry set up by Governor Abiola Ajimobi to investigate the crisis.
But speaking with journalists at the police headquarters, Eleyele, Ibadan on Wednesday, the state’s Commissioner of Police, Mr. Adisa Bolanta, challenged the faction to shed more light on its claim or stop insulting the sensibilities of members of the public.
He said that the claim was diversionary and aimed at attracting underserved public sympathy to the proscribed union.
The Police boss vowed that notwithstanding the union’s “cheap blackmail,” the command would go all out to ensure that Akinsola and Mr. Mukaila Lamidi (a.k.a Auxilliary) earlier declared wanted in connection with the violence were apprehended and brought to justice.
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Police fault Tokyo’s claim on Oyo NURTW casualties