[size=14pt]Assassins kill police guard, 1 other in ex-Oyo deputy speaker’s home [/size]
From GBENGA ADESUYI, Ibadan

Friday, November 12, 2010
Former deputy speaker of the Oyo State House of Assembly, Kazeem Ayilara, yesterday escaped death by the whiskers as a gang of suspected hired assassins stormed his home in Apata area of the city. The assassins killed a police security guard attached to him and a member of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC).




http://odili.net/news/source/2010/nov/12/514.html

Although Ayilara escaped death during the dawn invasion, he was said to have been beaten to almost a state of coma and had been hospitalized at an undisclosed hospital within the city. Two other people, who were shot by the attackers were also said to be hospitalised.

Daily Sun gathered that the assassins, numbering four, stormed the former deputy speaker’s home located at Revival area, Apata, Ibadan at about 2.30 a.m. and forced their way into the premises, having succeeded in killing the policeman and the OPC guard.

They were said to have resorted to shouting “Ayilara, where are you? Come out.”

While speaking with journalists, over the incident, Bamidele Ajibola, representing Ibadan North West Constituency said the invaders had forced their way into the premises after their initial shouts of “Ayilara, where are you? Come out.”

Ajibola, who alongside Ayilara was suspended from the Oyo State House of Assembly, alleged that the attack was politically motivated, adding that they did not take take anything from the house, except the gun of the shot policeman. “It was only the gun of the policeman that was taken away by the hoodlums,” he said.

Oyo State Commissioner of Police, Baba Adisa Bolanta, while confirming the attack on Ayilara’s residence told journalists in a telephone conversation that the incident was a mere armed robbery attack. Bolanta noted that the invaders took a pump action gun from the house, saying that the police command would commence immediate investigation into the incident.

Ayilara, who was in the camp of the anti-Akala aggrieved chieftains of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was still under suspension alongside eight other lawmakers in the state House of Assembly, following alleged frivolous allegations made against the leadership of the House. The nine anti-Akala lawmakers, who were against the leadership of the House of Assembly had tried to impeach the Speaker, Moruf Atilola, for allegedly stalling the probe of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala over alleged inflation of N8.5 billion road contracts.

The opposition group was against the second term bid of Governor Alao-Akala and had held series of political rallies in Ibadan as well as Ogbomoso, the hometown of the governor in recent times to show their opposition to the governor.

The latest of such anti-Akala PDP rallies held in Ogbomoso, Akala’s home-town, was greeted by sporadic gun shots by hoodlums who had wanted to stop the rally.

Gunmen kill policeman, guard as 2 lawmakers escape death
News Friday, November 12, 2010


By Ola Ajayi

IBADAN-TWO suspended anti-Akala lawmakers in the Oyo State House of Assembly have escaped death by the whiskers when unknown gunmen allegedly stormed their residence yesterday. But a policeman, Samuel Sule and a night guard, Mutiu Raimi were reportedly felled by the assassins' bullets.




http://odili.net/news/source/2010/nov/12/303.html

The two men are the former deputy Speaker in the legislative arm, Mr. Kazeem Ayilara and the Chairman, Oyo State House of Assembly Parliamentary Caucus, Mr. Mohammed Inakoju.

The legislators are among the eight lawmakers suspended by the Mr. Moruf Atilola-led legislative arm for allegedly plotting to remove the Speaker for allegedly being so subservient to the governor.

Lawmaker receiving treatment after bullet wound

Though, Ayilara escaped being killed by the gun-totting hoodlums who swooped on his residence, he received cuts in the head and he is still lying critically ill in an undisclosed hospital.

Vanguard gathered that about 20 suspected hoodlums from one faction of the warring National Union of Road Transport Workers besieged Ayilara's residence at Apata area of the city and left in their trail blood stains and sorrow.

Also Mr. Micheal Okunlade alleged that the gunmen had earlier visited his residence but he was lucky to have escaped.

While conducting newsmen round the house which was riddled with bullets, Ayilara said: “I heard gunshots around 2.30am and they were asking where is the honourable. Then, I stood up and they started firing at my room. If I had not stood up, the bullets would have hit me on my bed.

By this time he explained, "they had already killed one policeman and one Odua People’s Congress, OPC, member, and threatened to kill the second policeman if I refused to open the door. So, I did not have any option than to open the door."

“I opened the door, they came in and hit my head with their gun. One of them told me that somebody had already paid for my life.”

Before they killed the policeman, he said, they first disarmed him and later dragged him into a Toyota Sequoia Jeep marked LAGOS KA 956 AAA and shot him at close range .

The State Police Commissioner, Mr. Adisa Baba Bolanta confirmed the incident, adding that the police had begun manhunt to track down the suspects, describing the killing of the policeman as wicked, saying “that all efforts are been geared not only to arrest the perpetrators but to recover the items such as the pump action machine gun belonging to Hon. Ayilara and the weapons seized by the attackers.” He said investigations into the attack had begun, noting that no arrest had been made so far.

Do or die politics at its finest.

People from the southwest are good assassins though. If Nigeria ever becomes a strong nation, they should be incorporated into the security apparatus.

Friday, November 12, 2010
[size=14pt]Drummer shot at commissioner's inauguration in Oyo[/size]

Tunde Odesola, Ibadan


The Oyo State police command has commenced an investigation into the shooting of an unidentified middle-aged drummer during the inauguration of the new Commissioner for Education, in Oyo State, Mr Oladiti Solomon, at Governor's Office, Agodi, on Wednesday.





http://odili.net/news/source/2010/nov/12/807.html


There was a loud bang outside the hall, where Governor, Adebayo Alao-Akala, was inaugurating Solomon, who replaced the former Commissioner of Education, Prof Taoheed Adedoja, following his (Adedoja's) appointment as a federal minister.

The crowd that had gathered inside the hall was oblivious of the cause of the loud bang as the ceremony went on smoothly.

It was gathered that the drummer was wounded when the gun went off and he was rushed to an undisclosed hospital just as blood smeared the scene of the incident.

Confirming the incident, Commissioner of Police, Oyo State Command, Mr Adisa Bolanta, in a telephone interview with our correspondent, on Wednesday, said the drummer had a gun in his pocket, which went off.

Bolanta said the circumstances surrounding the shooting would be unearthed by a detailed investigation.

He said, "The man kept the gun in his pocket and it exploded. Of course, we are investigating the case but details are still sketchy for now."

The latest incident again brings to the fore, the level of insecurity in the state capital and also underscored the high number of illegal arms and ammunition in the hands of untrained persons.

This is serious o!

What is happening to this country?

EzeUche0:

This is serious o! 

What is happening to this country?

Stay away from Naija in 2011, simple.

Win election at all cost.

Osama10:

Win election at all cost.

Heads will be cut into two, legs will be bent backwards, blood, tears and sweat will run through the veins of every Nigerian, Ekiti will be turned into a concentration camp. The days are growing darker.

Aloy+Emeka:

Heads will be cut into two, legs will be bent backwards, blood, tears and sweat will run through the veins of every Nigerian, Ekiti will be turned into a concentration camp. The days are growing darker.

Aloy, only those that are ready to vote will experience this, as for me I would be cooling off somewhere.

Osama10:

Aloy, only those that are ready to vote will experience this, as for me I would be cooling off somewhere.

Then you are a coward and don't come here next year complaining that IBB is planning funeral for the nation, Nigeria.

Aloy+Emeka:

Then you are a coward and don't come here next year complaining that IBB is planning funeral for the nation, Nigeria.

Watch your language, to vote or not its personal.

Osama10:

Watch your language, to vote or not its personal.

No its not. It's your civic duty.

Aloy+Emeka:

No its not. It's your civic duty.

Yeah, its my civic duty. Why waste my precious time when at the end of the day it doesn't count.

Osama10:

Yeah, its my civic duty. Why waste my precious time when at the end of the day it doesn't count.

Hav efaith this time around. Your vote counts. Just go to the polling station in groups and arm yourself with an assault rifle.

Aloy+Emeka:

Hav efaith this time around. Your vote counts. Just go to the polling station in groups and arm yourself with an assault rifle.

You called me a coward for my personal opinion, what do I call you for this?

Osama10:

You called me a coward for my personal opinion, what do I call you for this?

A soldier.

Aloy+Emeka:

A soldier.

na. . .I've a berra one. . .a martyr!

Mai Suya:

na. . .I've a berra one. . .a martyr!

Tell him well.

Na juju dem go take you sacrifice for.

Mai Suya:

na. . .I've a berra one. . .a martyr!

No my levels never reach that one.

Aloy+Emeka:

A soldier.

soldier indeed. . . . . .which way is up when holding an M16?

bidemi12:

soldier indeed. . . . . .which way is up when holding an M16?

Yansh.