gbengapro:

I am in shock with the responses so far. You are all BIG FOOLS. You have left the substance to chase shadows. So Dele Alake and his goons have rights to shoot other motorists because he is afraid of assassination. Is he a police officer? Is he licensed to carry guns to shoot other motorists? Who the hell is Dele Alake to be driving around in a convoy of armed men?Have we descended so lowly and have become so lawless? If all political aspirants are licensed to carry guns, we might as well become a war zone.
Dele Alake is a lawless tug from Bola Tinubu's school of thuggery and area boys. He is reckless, irresponsible and silly. He should be charged for attempted murder and aggravated assault.
To you nairalanders who made these comments above, shame on you. You are blinded by sentiments and prejudice against Akala who is not a party in this matter

i'm also in shock reading this from anyways,who am i to blame.you must be one of akala booktlickers and a card carrying member of the pdp. . . So enjoy your privileges while it last afterall devil self get supporters.

Escuse me all. May I just ask if under our constitution anyone, even the president, has the power to order the arrest of anyone else? If so, under what circumstances?
I believe we should look at this incident with a clear mind. Let us put our passions and all personal insults aside, please. You see, we could use this incident to analyze the Nigerian State and, how those who pretend to lead us use the power we 'bestowed' on them.

Pafuri:

Escuse me all. May I just ask if under our constitution anyone, even the president, has the power to order the arrest of anyone else? If so, under what circumstances?
I believe we should look at this incident with a clear mind. Let us put our passions and all personal insults aside, please. You see, we could use this incident to analyze the Nigerian State and, how those who pretend to lead us use the power we 'bestowed' on them.

the power of arrest is vested only in security agencies.the only condition that a civilian could arrest another is only if he arrest such person at the scene of committing a crime.Akala's show of shame is a total abuse of power and office.no sentiments !!

I am in shock with the responses so far. You are all BIG FOOLS. You have left the substance to chase shadows. So Dele Alake and his goons have rights to shoot other motorists because he is afraid of assassination. Is he a police officer? Is he licensed to carry guns to shoot other motorists? Who the hell is Dele Alake to be driving around in a convoy of armed men?Have we descended so lowly and have become so lawless? If all political aspirants are licensed to carry guns, we might as well become a war zone.
Dele Alake is a lawless tug from Bola Tinubu's school of thuggery and area boys. He is reckless, irresponsible and silly. He should be charged for attempted murder and aggravated assault.
To you nairalanders who made these comments above, shame on you. You are blinded by sentiments and prejudice against Akala who is not a party in this matter

@ gbengapro:  I quite appreciate your point of view. Perhaps it is instructive to know that when you aspire to the governorship of a State in any country (but especially Nigeria) you enjoy certain 'privileges' that others do not. That will include the privilege to carry arms and to have a security detail. God forbid that all aspirants to the governorship of all the 36 States get assassinated in the same week! Not good, right? Yet, that is the nature of politica as played in Nigeria. Now, a security detail is what it is. It protects its principal. If such license to carry arms and to have a security detail are illegal, that is another matter entirely. The courts will handle that. So, you wonder we have "descended so low(ly) and have become so lawless? Where have you been in the past few years? Ours is a lawless society, sad to say. It is of no importance who Dele Alake is. I do not know him for instance. But the man has the right to protect himself in a country where only the rich, and the politically connected get protected. Have you ever wondered why no one has ever attacked the likes of Alao Arisekola, Oba Otudeko, Subomi Balogun, Maitama Sule, Suara Alani Bankole (father of the Speaker of the House of Representatives), and a host of others?. Go figure! The retired generals are not on the list for obvious reasons. As far as Akala is concerned, if he is not a party to the incident, why order the arrest of Alake?  Now, if you claim they are 'prejudiced' against Akala, can it be concluded that you are favorably (biased) disposed toward him? That being so, you are not the right person to contribute to the debate. I was just wondering.

the power of arrest is vested only in security agencies.the only condition that a civilian could arrest another is only if he arrest such person at the scene of committing a crime.Akala's show of shame is a total abuse of power and office.no sentiments !!

@Bluetooth: The power to arrest, yes, under certain conditions. But the power to order the detention of an individual?  Governor Akala probably thinks he is still a CSP (Chief Superintendent of Police)! That would belittle him, would it not?!

The only people  i know that have constitutional power to order arrest are the the national assembly and a presiding judge.i have also heard the IG of police order some arrests,although i dont know if he does that with an arrest warrant.other than this,i dont think anybody have the power to order anyone's arrest.just because of our lawless society,anything goes unquestioned.

Precisely my thinking. Arrogance versus ignorance. Or, is it one plus the other?

@ Alloy+Emeka: Akala has a Ph.D?

You people shouldn't let your emotions cloud your sense of reasoning. Judge fairly and forget that Akala is a scumbag: If Gbengapro's assertion is true, will you blame Akala because Alake's action is endangering the lives of the innocent citizens of Oyo of whom Akala is in charge?. It is the leader's duty to protect his people.

Pafuri:

@ Alloy+Emeka: Akala has a Ph.D?

Yes from UI.

Aloy+Emeka:

Yes from UI.

that should be an honorary one. . .that guy look like a standard six alumnus to me.

My UI? Damn! No wonder I saw UI as his university on his FaceBook page. OMG! Is UI that cheap now?

@gbenga

Its a fool dat knows who a fool is. You are a magga fool and u remain a fool for life. No respect at all . You just carry ur big mouth dey yab wit no course.

Am sure, na Akala born fool like you. See him mouth like FUFU. SO bad that you are blind and dont know what is happening in our society

Mr BIG FOOL,AKALA pickin, he did just two roads for you in 6years,gave you 20 naira, buy you PDP shirt and you came and start calling us all BIG FOOL. I pity your generation unborn

@gbengapro,u scored distinction in craziness and av PHD in madness and u are an undesirable element mistakenly born by man with all this comment and ur support for criminal Akala.u are nothing but a gorilla,who is not supposse to live with human being,so go back to the forest or zoo to dine and wine with other animals cos thats where u belong,so also ur thug and animal in human skin governor of oyo state.
Can u read and understand what the caption is,or the fucking governor is feeding u and ur descendants.BIG FOOL

Akala is a shamless, bleaching OMO ALE who is only good at one thing, STEALING.
When men are discussing ideas and putting ideas into motion, half men like Akala will only make noise,  Abeg desist from this act for it will surely fail.

Pafuri, ok you are the only person who have made reasonable contribution without using gutter language and abusive words.
Now my points are these: is it true that a person carrying a gun in Dele Alake's convoy shot and almost killed an innocent motorist on the highway? If the answer is yes, is this lawful? Can a person shot another inside a vehicle because he thought the person might be an assassin? Is this not inviting anarchy? Is Dele Alake above the law to have a private army around to fight off perceived assassins? Now assume all political aspirants afraid of assassins should have armed escorts like Dele Alake, just imagine how many private armies we will have on our roads. Now let's assume that Alapini who he shot had his own armed escort, wouldn't there be a war on the highway?
Now on Akala, the poster is obviously biased because he failed to provide any source to back up his story that Akala ordered the arrest. Where is the proof? Everybody just jumped on the bandwagon to abuse the gov.
Let's assume he did. Akala is the chief security officer of the state and has the legal power to order the arrest of anybody who breached the peace by directing the police to make the arrest. The armed escort acted recklessly and irresponsibly to shoot an innocent citizen and Dele Alake is culpable because he was the employer.
Everything in nairaland is politicized and people loose their sense of reasoning when their political paymaster is affected

gbengapro:

is it true that a person carrying a gun in Dele Alake's convoy shot and almost killed an innocent motorist on the highway? If the answer is yes, is this lawful? Can a person shot another inside a vehicle because he thought the person might be an assassin?

Now let's assume that Alapini who he shot had his own armed escort, wouldn't there be a war on the highway?

The bolded are blatant lies!!

Try and read again what the story says and I am copying it here for you to read in case you missed it:

Apprehensive security conscious officers accompanying Dele alake decided to shoot in the air to scare off the occupants of the car.

Mr desigiezd, you are either uninformed or mischievous. The truth from news report is that Alapini was injured, his car damaged and his windscreen broken. He could have been killed. Now put yourself in Alapini's shoes. What would you have done?

gbengapro:

Mr desigiezd, you are either uninformed or mischievous. The truth from news report is that Alapini was injured, his car damaged and his windscreen broken. He could have been killed. Now put yourself in Alapini's shoes. What would you have done?

Christ on a flipping bike, how is that even remotely close to the article that was posted? Let me guess, we should watch out for part 2?

gbengapro:

Mr desigiezd, you are either uninformed or mischievous. The truth from news report is that Alapini was injured, his car damaged and his windscreen broken. He could have been killed. Now put yourself in Alapini's shoes. What would you have done?

Are you really sure we are readung the same report because there was no place where all these were mentioned in the story posted by Alloy+Emeka?

@Gbengapro,my friend go sit down,u are the only odd one,na Akala send u go school or u are campaigning for him under,if Alapinni is injured let him use the law to prosecute Alake for that simple.u dont av clear understanding of the topic.

That's the problem with most of you. Alloy+emeka lied and deliberately distorted the news. The true report was in the dailies. Check today's punch story captioned "Attempted murder: court awaits DPP on Alake's aide's case" on page 10.

Most of you allow these cyber terrorists to mislead you and distort facts for selfish reasons. Alake's aide truly shot at Alapini's vehicle and injured him. He was briefly hospitalized. The aide later said he thought Alapini was an assassin. He has been properly charged for attempted murder. Alake was briefly arrested and released on bail and he might be charged to court as an accomplice. There is no where Akala's name was mentioned in the news report. It was just a creation of the cyber terrorist called alloy+Emeka who is spreading falsehood and most of your fell for it because you have small and biased minds.

gbengapro:

It was just a creation of the cyber terrorist called alloy+Emeka who is spreading falsehood and most of your fell for it because you have small and biased minds.

There really is no need for the insults above. Since you have a contrary write-up from The Punch, you should have posted same here to ensure balance reporting and an unbiased view of the whole issue.

Now The Punch Report:

Attempted murder: Court awaits DPP on Alake’s aide’s case
By Olalekan Adetayo
Tuesday, 6 Jul 2010

Magistrate Court 8, Iyaganku, Ibadan, Oyo State on Monday adjourned the case of attempted murder filed against Patrick Friday, one of the aides of a former Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Dele Alake, till July 29, 2010.

The case was adjourned pending the receipt of the legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions on the case.

The Senior Magistrate, Mrs. Ebeloku Mustapha, adjourned the case after the prosecutor, Sergeant Babatunde Ologede, who had initially objected to the oral application for bail of the accused person because the court had no jurisdiction to entertain it, informed the court that the matter was that of custody case.

He noted that the accused person was still in prison custody, adding that the case file had been collected by the Investigating Police Officer, Sergeant Alfred Daniel, for duplication to enable him to forward the matter to the DPP for legal advice.

The court, thereafter, adjourned further hearing in the matter till July 29, 2010 pending the report from the DPP, and as according to the counsel, to enable him perfect the bail application at a High Court.

Friday, 26, was on Friday arraigned before the court on a two-count charge of illegal possession of firearms and attempted murder of a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Tunji Alapinni.

The first count in the charge marked MI/ 927C/ 2010, reads, “That you, Friday, on June 30, 2010, at about 14:30 hrs, at Toll Gate, Ibadan in the Magisterial District, did unlawfully have in your possession one Pump Action gun with five live cartridges, and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 428 of the Criminal Code Cap. 38, Vol. II, Laws of Oyo state of Nigeria.”

The second count reads “That you, Friday, did unlawfully attempt to kill one Tunji Alapini, an Assistant Inspector-General of Police (retired) by shooting him with a Pump Action gun, which you unlawfully had in your possession, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320 of the same code.”

His plea was not taken on Friday, but he was remanded at the Agodi Prison from where he was brought to the court on Monday.

Meanwhile, there was a mild drama in the court on Monday as the counsel to the accused made frantic efforts aimed at barring journalists from covering the proceedings.

The counsel, Mr. Olutayo Oyewale, who told the court that he was a notable chieftain of the Action Congress in Osun State, also asked the court to order that his name should not be mentioned in connection with the matter.

Though, she declined Oyewale’s application seeking a stoppage of journalists from performing their duty, the magistrate in her short ruling, ordered that the name of the counsel should not be mentioned in connection with the matter and that her name should also not be mentioned.

From both reports,it's clear that Dele Alake is completely exonerated from the case.
His security detail fired the shots and that has nothing to do with Dele Alake himself.
Dele Alake can not be charged charged with conspiracy because because there was no evidence to show his involvement,order or action.

Pls tell all those who are not well informed or lack good info to get wisdom, Akala ni jo,

gbengapro:

That's the problem with most of you. Alloy+emeka lied and deliberately distorted the news. The true report was in the dailies. Check today's punch story captioned "Attempted murder: court awaits DPP on Alake's aide's case" on page 10.

Most of you allow these cyber terrorists to mislead you and distort facts for selfish reasons. Alake's aide truly shot at Alapini's vehicle and injured him. He was briefly hospitalized. The aide later said he thought Alapini was an assassin. He has been properly charged for attempted murder. Alake was briefly arrested and released on bail and he might be charged to court as an accomplice. There is no where Akala's name was mentioned in the news report. It was just a creation of the cyber terrorist called alloy+Emeka who is spreading falsehood and most of your fell for it because you have small and biased minds.

The bleeching Unintelligent man really suprises me!
I can't place it, was he born stupid or a dirty act he picked up?