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  • Photo: Benin-Ore expressway accident carefully planned to eliminate me – Oshiomhole

    Photo: Benin-Ore expressway accident carefully planned to eliminate me – Oshiomhole

    Former chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has come out to say that yesterday’s accident which involved his convoy and a trailer along the Benin Orr highway was a carefully planned accident to eliminate him.

    TNG recalls that two Policemen lost their lives while several others sustained serious injuries in the accident. i

    The accident was TNG reported yesterday occurred close to Oluku junction, along the Benin-Ore highway, when a trailer rammed at full speed into the backup security vehicle of the former governor of Edo State.

    The victims were travelling with him to catch up with the candidate of APC, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu and other top chieftains of the party at a rally scheduled for Usen, Ovia South-west local government area of the state.

    The trailer, according to eye witness account, rammed into the vehicle conveying the Policemen from the back, forcing it into the bush. The vehicle in which Oshiomhole was traveling in was also said to have been damaged in the accident.

    But in a statement by Victor Oshioke, Media aide to Oshiomhole, he alleged assassination attempt on his principal.

    According to the statement, “Some minutes after 12 pm today, Tuesday September 1, 2020, there was a motor accident involving the convoy of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, along Benin-Lagos by-pass before Oluku junction.

    “The convoy was headed to Usen Community in Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State, where Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was expected to appear at a campaign rally alongside Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, the APC governorship candidate in the September 19, 2020 election in the state, when a trailer driving in the same direction veered off its course, hit the back up Toyota Hilux vehicle carrying seven policemen, forcing it off the road, into the bush and rammed into the Sports Utility vehicle carrying Comrade Oshiomhole, causing substantial damage.

    “We are sad to report that two police personnel in the Toyota Hilux truck lost their lives while two others who are in critical condition receiving treatment at a hospital in the state.

    “Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and other persons in the convoy, apart from those indicated above did not sustain any injury.

    “It is pertinent to state, without fear of contradiction, that the convoy of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was maintaining legal speed limits when this incident occurred. This explains why the trailer, travelling in the same direction over ran the Hilux truck off the road and still hit the SUV carrying Comrade Oshiomhole, causing substantial damage.

    “Without prejudice to police investigations, eyewitnesses account of the incident suggest, and we believe rightly too, that this was an assassination attempt, targeting Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

    “It is painful that innocent policemen performing their legal duties lost their lives in this very unfortunate incident.

    “While we pray for the quick recovery of the injured policemen, we extend our condolences to the families of the departed.”

    According to the statement, “Comrade Adams Oshiomhole has visited the injured policemen in the hospital and deployed some of his aides to be on standby at the hospital to ensure that the wounded policemen are given the best medical attention possible.

    “The case was immediately reported at the Ekiadolor Police Station, and investigations are ongoing.

    “We call on the security agencies to do everything possible to unravel the circumstances surrounding this incident, especially because of the threat to the life of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the violence which has been directed towards him and those around him in recent times.”

    Following the road crash, the APC Campaign Council on behalf iof it’s candidate, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, said it had called off the Usen rally.
    In a statement by the Chairman, APC Media Campaign Council, Mr. John Mayaki, immediately news of the accident filtered in, the campaign council suspended the scheduled event, to honour the dead.
    The statement reads: “On behalf of Pastor Ize-Iyamu the APC condoled with the families of the victims who lost their lives in the unfortunate accident. They are not alone in their grief.’
    The APC, he said, has pledged that the campaign would do everything within its powers to ameliorate their grief by reaching out to the families of the policemen involved in the fatal crash.
    The campaign council said, Edo will never forget their supreme sacrifice.
    It also called on everyone to pray for the souls of the dead, and against the recurrence of such tragedies.
    Similarly, Governor Godwin Obaseki has commisserated with the candidate of APC, Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu; and the former National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomole, over the unfortunate event which claimed the lives of two Policemen, leaving several others injured.
    In a statement by his Special Adviser, Media and Communication Strategy, Crusoe Osagie, the governor commiserated with the families of the victims of the crash and prayed that God grants them the fortitude to bear the loss of their loved ones.

    Obaseki said, “I received the news of the accident with shock and commiserate with the former governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the candidate of the APC in the forthcoming governorship election, Osagie Ize-Iyamu over the very unfortunate incident involving their security aides and top chieftains of the party in the campaign team.”

    He added, “While we pray for strength for the families of the deceased persons, we also pray for the quick recovery of those who were injured and are receiving treatment.”

  • No plans to eliminate whistle blower – Police

    The Zone 5 headquarters of the Nigerian Police Force, Benin, has debunked any plot to eliminate one Ovie Osiebe-Franklin, an alleged whistle blower, and one other Anodeh Brave.

    This is contained in a statement released by DSP Emeka Iheanacho, Zonal Police Public Relations Officer (ZPPRO), and made available to newsmen in Benin on Sunday.

    Iheanacho said that the alleged whistle blower was a suspect in a case of alleged false information investigated by the FCIID, Abuja.

    He said that debunking the alleged elimination plot was imperative following a publication by an online publication on March 28.

    He said the said-publication had alledgedly reported that the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 5 Headquarters, Benin, AIG Rasheed Akintunde was plotting to eliminate the whistle blower.

    Akintunde was also alleged to be plotting to kill Anode Brave, a member of Delta State Polytechnic Governing Council, Otefe-Oghara.

    He said that the AIG was committed to professionalism and intelligence-led policing.

    “TheAssistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 5 Headquarters, Benin, AIG Rasheed Akintunde wishes to reaffirm his commitment to professionalism, and intelligence-led policing.

    “He also wishes to reaffirm his respect for fundamental human rights and observance of rule of law in the discharge of his duties at all time.

    “It would be recalled that sometime in 2014, the school authority terrminated Ovie Osiebe-Franklin appointment as as academic staff of the Delta State Polytechnic.

    “He was alleged to be involved in acts of corruption, extortion of students, sexual harassment of female students and examination malpractice.

    “Since the termination of the suspect’s appointment by the Governing Council , he has been on vengeance mission against the authorities of Delta State Polytechnic Otefe-Oghara”, the statement said.

    Iheanacho further said that in 2014, Ovie Osiebe-Franklin wrote a petition to the Inspector- General of Police against the Rector and other members of the Governing Council including Anodeh Brave, Esq.

    There, he alleged misappropriation of the the institution’s fund, it said.

    “At the end of the investigation, a Legal Advice from the Commissioner of Police Legal Department, Abuja, directed that the said Ovie Osiebe-Franklin (suspect ) should be arrested and charged to court for false information”.

    He, however, said that on Feb. 20, 2018, another petition was written to the AIG, Zone 5 Headquarters, by Anodeh Brave Esq.

    He said that it was against the supposed whistle blower over allegations of corruption and extortion, impersonation of EFCC officials, assassination of characters and threat to lives.

    The ZPPRO said that based on the petition which was presently being investigated at the ZCIID, the supposed whistle blower had continued to evade police arrest.

    He said that every effort made to arrest and prosecute the suspect had failed.

    He said as a responsible law enforcement agency, the zone would like to reassure members of the public that it would continue to discharge its functions within the confine of extant laws.

    He advised the general public to disregard the said publication as there was no truth in it.

    He appealed to the public to assist the zone with useful information that could lead to the arrest of the supposed whistle blower.