Oduduwa News

At least three dead bodies have been recovered from the rubbles of a three-storey building that collapsed on Saturday afternoon at Akanbi Crescent, Yaba, Lagos State.

Two persons have also been rescued by emergency workers.

The incident comes a few months after the collapse of a 21-storey building that claimed the lives of 45 persons at Gerrard Road, Ikoyi area of the state.

It was gathered that a section of the building, which was still under construction, collapsed on another building beside it.

An eyewitness who spoke with the media said a part of the building had collapsed last year.

When contacted, Director-General (DG), Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Oluwafemi Oke-Osanyitolu, told The Guardian that the agency was working to rescue more people who may be trapped in the rubbles.

“The building was said to have shown signs on Thursday and when one of the neighbours called their attention to it, they told him off,” Ibrahim Farinloye, National Emergency Management Agency acting zonal coordinator, southwest, said.

The State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Idris Salako, said in a statement that Lagos State Building Control Agency sealed off the construction site in 2021.

He said work resumed without authorisation.

”Preliminary findings indicated that the site had been sealed off twice by the Lagos State Building Control Agency in 2021 for non-compliance with building regulations, after which the site was abandoned,” Salako said.

“However, the developer later broke the government seal, sneaked into the site and recommenced construction without official authorisation.

“As at 9:00 p.m., one person had been pulled out alive, while two deaths were recorded.

A press statement made available to ODUDUWA NEWS on Sunday cleared the aired that the incident was a cult related violence.

Osifeso through the statement however confirmed that a person was killed during the heated fracas, while some hoodlums that responsible for the break down of law and order have been arrested for thourogh investigations.

The statement stated as thus; “Cult related violence broke out at the early hours of Friday 11/02/2022 between some hoodlums around Oremeji Area, Ibadan.

“Upon the strength of a distress call received by operatives of the Oyo State Police Command deployments of operational and tactical assets were swiftly executed.”

“Preliminary investigation reveals that the violence was as result of claims for supremacy among the hoodlums and in the process a gang member lost his life with others injured while motorcycles and vehicles were vandalized.

“Meanwhile, Normalcy has returned to the area as it remains under close monitoring and surveillance with high visibility policing and intensive patrols.”

“Arrests have been made and efforts are ongoing to break the criminal network for the apprehension of other criminal elements within and outside the jurisdiction.” Osifeso stated.

Concluded part of the statement maintained that, “Further developments would be communicated accordingly, please.”

A Chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party and former Local Government Chairman of Ibadan North Local Government, Demola Omotoso has accused Governor Seyi Makinde of abandoning the political structure that fought for his victory in the 2019 gubernatorial election stating that many of those who are now his Lieutenants are alien to the struggle that gave him victory in the last poll or they were on the other side then.

He therefore advised the Governor to look for those who worked for his victory in 2019 with the same zeal he used in the build-up to the last election. He asked him to court them all over.

Omotoso who was Aanuoluwapo Omorinde’s guest on this week’s edition of BOTTOM LINE on IBR 92.5fm Ibadan said “it annoys me whenever we demand justice and some people talk about the vault being opened. I was the returning Officer for my party, the PDP in my local government in the 2019 gubernatorial election. If you don’t understand what politics is, you don’t get such assignment! My local government produced the highest votes for the governor in the election and that shows how much we worked but all of a sudden, we were sidelined. All we are asking for, is justice and equity. Many of those who are now with the governor are aliens to the struggle then”.

He speaks further “there was practically no meeting called then, that I did not attend to ensure that Engineer Seyi Makinde win the election. I know the governor to be a deliberate person. He doesn’t just take decisions without thinking it through. So, I want to believe that he is also deliberate in his decision to sideline some of us but I advise him to change”.
He alleged that there are plans to also sideline him in his local government.

“One thing I will not condone is the plan to sideline in my local government. By all standards, if you call for PDP Leaders in my local government using the two parameters, I am qualified but there are plans to sideline me too. Those who are parading themselves as leaders of the party in Ibadan North Local Government have at one time or the other left the party except for myself and Chief Hazeem Gbolarumi who have not left the PDP since inception. I joined the PDP in year 2000 and since then, I have never left the party and will not for whatsoever reason leave”.

When asked if he was aware of his appointment as Chairman, Governing Council, the Polytechnic Ibadan, Omotoso said he was never given any appointment because he was not officially informed. He however admitted that he heard of what played out but said he was not interested in talking about it.

When reminded that Governor Seyi Makinde facilitated a national assignment at the party level for him in 2019 and that the same man cannot turn against him, the former Local Government boss said “all these things are not beggarly. I laboured and worked for my party. I served as the Executive Chairman of my local government twice and in Caretaker capacity twice. So, I have lived for the PDP.

“There are three elected Executive positions in Nigeria; that of the President, Governor and the Chairman. I am happy to have served as a Chairman. So, as regards the national assignment, I have paid my due.”

Lagos Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu has appointed Dr. Nurudeen Oluremi Olaleye as acting Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University of Science and Technology (LASUSTECH) formerly known as Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH) Ikorodu.

Olaleye was the Rector of LASPOTECH before it became LASUSTECH.

Sanwo-Olu recently signed the bills for the establishment of additional two universities in the State.

They are Lagos State University of Education, LASUED, and Lagos State University of Science and Technology.

Sanwo-Olu assented to the bills transmitting Lagos State Polytechnic in Ikorodu, Isolo, and Surulere campuses to the University of Science and Technology, as well as Adeniran Ogunsanya Colleges of Education, Ijanikin and Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Epe to Lagos State University of Education.

Police arrest Couple with Fresh Humans Parts in Abeokuta
CP Lanre Bankole of Oguns State Command and Couple Arrested with Fresh Human Parts. The Ogun State police command says it has arrested one Kehinde Oladimeji, 43, and wife Adejumoke Raji , 35, for being in possession of fresh different human parts.

DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, the State Police Public Relations Officer, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abeokuta.

According to Oyeyemi, the couple who are residents of 72, MKO Abiola way , Leme , Abeokuta were arrested following a report lodged at Kemta Divisional Headquarters by one chief Moshood Ogunwolu, the Baale of Leme Community.

Oyeyemi noted that the Baale , who reported that one Pastor Adisa Olarewaju who is a co-tenant with the suspects informed him of offensive odours coming out from the room of the suspects.

“Upon the complaint, the DPO Kemta Division, CSP Adeniyi Adekunle , quickly led his detectives to the scene where search was conducted.

” On searching the room, a plastic bowl containing fresh different parts of human being was discovered in the room, and the couple were promptly arrested.

“On interrogation, the suspects confessed they were herbalists and that the human parts comprises of hands, breasts and other parts were given to them by one Michael who they claimed resided in Adatan area of Abeokuta.

“All efforts to locate the said Michael proved abortive as the suspects could not locate his house.

“It will be recalled that a dismembered body of an unknown person was found in a swamp area at Leme area of Abeokuta about a week ago, it is not yet clear whether the parts is that of the found body or not,” he said.

Meanwhile, the commissioner of police, CP Lanre Bankole , has ordered the immediate transfer of the suspects to Homicide Section of the state criminal investigation and Intelligence Department for discreet investigation.

The CP vowed that anyone directly or indirectly involved in the crime would be brought to book to serve as a deterrent to others.