Thursday, April 10, 2008 Printer Friendly Version

Another oil dealer shot dead in Ibadan

By Akin Oyedele, Ibadan


Another private petroleum dealer, Mr. Gbenga Taiwo, has been shot dead in Ibadan by two suspected assassins operating on motorcycle.



The killing came barely one month after the yet-to-be-solved murder of Mr. Demola Oyadeyi, also an oil dealer.

Sources told journalists that Taiwo, the Managing Director of Samalis Oil was shot dead around 10pm on Tuesday night at his residence in Oluyole Estate Extension, Aba Aladiye, Ibadan.

Oyadeyi, a retired Permanent Secretary in the state, was shot dead by two men that operated on motorcycle at his Demoya filling station located in Alegongo Area of Akobo, Ibadan, last month.

It was gathered that the assailants had laid ambush for Taiwo a few metres away from his house and accosted him while waiting for the gate of the house to be opened.

Although he reportedly pleaded with the killers to spare his life and take everything he had in the house, they were said to have told him that someone had already paid for his life.

After the brief encounter, one of the two attackers was said to have pulled a pistol and shot the man on the chest before fleeing the scene on their get-away bike.

The source said the man was confirmed dead on arrival at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, where he was taken for medical attention.

Earlier, a private hospital had allegedly refused to attend to the man on the excuse that it required a police report to treat gunshot victims, following which he was taken to the UCH in the hospital’s ambulance.
http://odili.net/news/source/2008/apr/10/429.html

Thursday, April 10, 2008 Printer Friendly Version

Sectarian killings: CAN threatens tough action

By Akin Oyedele, Ibadan


The Christian Association of Nigeria has threatened to react “appropriately” to the spate of religious intolerance in parts of Oyo State, which recently claimed the lives of three clergymen in Igangan.







advertisement





A statement on Wednesday by the President of CAN in the state, Rev. Joseph Akinfenwa, said the only way to avert the impending reaction was for the police to bring the perpetrators of the crime to justice.

Elsewhere, the Founder, Achievers’ Rock Assembly, Rev. Iyiola Oluyemi, on Wednesday said religious organisations should de-emphasise profit making and concentrate on how to lure youths away from crime.

Addressing a news conference in Ibadan on the forthcoming programme of the church tagged, “Heaven come down and something strange will happen,” he regretted that most churches had deviated from soul-winning.

For quite a while, Akinfenwa said Christians had maintained peace in the face of religious intolerance in parts of the state because it had not assumed a fatal dimension until the Igangan experience.

Warning that religious strife was festering in the state, he called on the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the command, Mr. Ralph Ibeazor, to rise to the occasion.

He, however, commended the police for the steps taken so far to unravel the identities of the masterminds of the Igangan mayhem that consumed three clergymen who visited the community for evangelism.

Akinfenwa said, “An example of such religious intolerance was on March 15 when Prophet Oladipupo, Joel, aka Baba Sekunderin, organised crusades in Eruwa and Ibarapa.

“It was in Igangan community that their vehicles were attacked; stones were hurled at their vehicles and many windscreens were broken.

“When the report was brought to us, we persuaded them to remain calm; that we should take it as one of the sufferings of Christ.

http://odili.net/news/source/2008/apr/10/427.html

This is news

wheeww, very Sad

In that region, assassination is their culture

can somebody pls tell me wat is the reason for all these assassinations?

can somebody please tell me what is the reason for all these assassinations?

Greed; that is the new culture in Nigerian politics.