Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State has approved immediate suspension of the
Baale of Shangisha in Magodo, Chief Yusuf Ogundare, for faking his kidnap, which allegedly took place barely eight days ago.

The governor’s action was sequel to the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Fatai Owoseni’s allegation yesterday, that the accused Baale had confessed during investigation that he faked his abduction with his brother, Mohammed Adams’ help.

Ambode’s order that the suspect desist from parading himself as the Baale of the community was contained in a memo with reference number OLGAS.83/S./Vol.1 dated July 13, addressed to the Sole Administrator of Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area, and signed by the state’s Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Teslim Folami.

Speaking at a briefing at the State House, Alausa Secretariat, Ikeja, Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji Kazeem, stressed that the state government will not condone any act aimed at causing panic and ridicule the security apparatus in Lagos.
According to him, “I can assure you that once the investigation is concluded and it clearly shows that they committed the crime; the full weight of the law will be used against the perpetrators.”

Police’s investigation

Earlier, Owoseni hinted that the Baale was not in Lagos because investigation revealed that he was driving in Ibadan, Oyo State, and left for Ilorin, Kwara State, and others.

Owoseni, while parading the two suspects at the State House, Ikeja, said Ogundare was apprehended by men of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, in Alausa area of the state on July 11 after he was dropped in a suspicious manner by a car, which immediately sped off.
How Baale was ‘freed’

Giving details of how Ogundare was apprehended, Owoseni said: “On July 11 at about 10p.m., a team of RRS patrol officers, working around Alausa, saw a vehicle drop a male adult in a suspicious manner close to Shoprite.

“The speed with which the car drove off attracted them to that spot. A quick enquiry revealed that it was the Baale that was allegedly kidnapped.

”Immediately after, while Ogundare was being debriefed, he sold a dummy that the kidnappers dropped him off.
“However, unknown to him investigation had revealed that on July 5, the day he was allegedly kidnapped in Lagos, he was driving around in Ashi, Ibadan; then he went to Ilorin and Iwo; he was just frolicking.

“Also, because of information that had got to security services that his younger brother and his wife were being questioned and were actually in custody because of some discrepancies that were noticed in the interaction they had with security agencies, and in furtherance of the synergy existing between the Police and Department of State Services, DSS, we jointly compared notes and discovered it was a false alarm.”

It would be recalled that Adams had told security agencies that he was with the Baale at CMD Hotel when some people, who claimed they wanted to buy land, whisked them away and later dropped him.

Faulting the claim, the Commissioner of Police said investigation revealed that he (Adams) was not at any time in the hotel with the Baale, but was only at the restaurant of the hotel, and after some minutes, he left.
Again, the Baale’s wife actually drove the Venza car allegedly used to abduct the supposed victim into the hotel.

‘His goal was to embarrass Lagos Govt’

Owoseni added that after the suspects were confronted with the indisputable facts, they had no choice but to confess faking the kidnap.

He narrated that immediately after Ogundare was allegedly kidnapped, Adams went to the community and called the town crier to order the whole community to close shops and that markets, an action aimed at inciting members of the community against Lagos State Government.

Owoseni said the objective of the suspects was to falsely accuse the Oba of Shangisha as the brain behind the kidnapping, which they indeed did, as a vengeance on his being installed the Oba instead of Ogundare.
The Police boss added that they also embarrassed government and security agencies when they arrested him (Ogundare) as he falsely displayed the plate number of Oba of Shangisha on his car.

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The extent some people can go at times just to discredit their opponents! Well, served them right!

Mumu ruler!

These are the kind of people that will claim Evans kidnapped them

This is serious.....faking your own kidnap huh




What do want to prove?

hmmmm...

I bliv this Baale is one of those that wished Evans was a freeman.He wud av assisted him to wage a successful kidnap and both parties wud av bn smiling to d bank now.

He has done bad, no doubt will be taught a lesson by the authority.

Tinubu don suspend this one

Davdonjoe:
Naija pple sha

oya say it..... AFONJA pple

Lagos and useless Obas,you cant seperate both....while expelling this Oba of Magodo,dont forget to expel the main Oba of Lagos,i have a feeling that one may be into serious rituals and its because of his failure as an Oba,that all this other small criminal Obas are emerging in Lagos.
Why are all the big time kidnappers staying in Magodo?this now explains where evans learnt his profession from,may be Evans wasnt even a kidnapper until he moved in to Magodo!

oga o.

Hmmmm! Dia Oba ad his subjects are all 419ers..Fraudulent pipo..Tank God for exposing him dey would have blamed igbos.

Make you kuku start yahoo yahoo self better pass this nonsense.

BuariCopyPaste:
The Oba obviously influenced Evans into kidnaping business cos Lagos is the germinating ground for all atrocities in Nigeria.

Baba Ijebu, one-chance, agbero, pick-pocket, omonile, jungle justice, oluwole, renting one apartment to hundreds of people, etc all are Lagos(afonja)made crimes.

Sadly they never invest the proceeds into something tangible.
Just see the mother of Rashidi Yekini languishing in poverty

Pls remove the innocent OLD woman's picture.

hmmm

But this Oba Funny oooh

Imagine Bale for that matter.....

Why wont there be people making mockery of traditional stool as oba and baale when political thugs and riff raff are politically appointed into sacred traditional seats?

l can't imagine someone with self respect and reverence for culture and tradional descending so low to bring shame to himself and community..

lranu

Wonderful

Dz Ofe nmanu people never cease to amuse me. Watch dem run away from this thread.

Blackie46:
Dz Ofe nmanu people never cease to amuse me. Watch dem run away from this thread.

Shat up dere, how many times your kidnapping templates been sold everywhere, apanu like u.
He was caught out cos he bought the wrong kidnapping book from alaba.
Just zeep it. Ok.

eposho:

Shat up dere, how many times your kidnapping templates been sold everywhere, apanu like u.
He was caught out cos he bought the wrong kidnapping book from alaba.
Just zeep it. Ok.

What crime has dz one done to deserve this first class foolishness ? Afonjas like you have been kidnapping since 2000BC.