Three men robbery gang was reported to have attacked a
professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Prof.
Abdullahi Onimisi.
The men also attacked his wife and his son, whose names had
yet to be ascertained
Kwara state commissioner, Mr. Olusola Amore, on Thursday
said the victims were inflicted with machete cuts, adding that the don received
severe cuts and was admitted in an undisclosed hospital.
Amore, while parading the suspects at the command’s
headquarters in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, identified them as Onimisi’s
former driver, Opeyemi Esan; Benjamin Musa and Olusegun Omoyajowolo.
He added that Esan, who had been sacked by the don, came
from Lagos after recruiting Musa and Omoyajowolo to attack the don and his
family.
Amore said, “The professor told us that he was attacked by
the three men, who were armed with machetes, and that they carted away his
valuables, including a Toyota Muzzle Camry.
“Acting on intelligence report, the command’s Anti-Robbery Squad raided an
identified black spot on Unity Road, Ilorin,
arrested the suspects and recovered
all the stolen items.”
Esan said the gang robbed Onimisi because he allegedly owed
him one month’s salary.
Meanwhile, the state command of the Nigeria Security and
Civil Defence Corps paraded a former territorial manager of the Nigerian
Telecommunications Limited, Mr. Benedict Uwulekhue, along with 11 other
suspects for alleged vandalism, criminal conspiracy and illegal sale of
equipment of NITEL.
The Commandant, Kwara State Command, NSCDC, Mr. Pedro Ideba,
said the suspects included three security men, adding that the security men had
confessed to the crime.
He added that some vandalised high-tension cables, transmitter
and transformer belonging to NITEL were allegedly sold to two buyers in Ilorin.
The commandant said the buyers could not produce documents
to authenticate ownership of the items.
He added that it was during a search in one of the buyers’
house that two industrial generators belonging to the government were also
discovered.
He said, “NITEL still has some telecommunication equipment
on its premises in Ilorin. The men stole from the equipment and offered
N140,000 bribe to NSCDC personnel to stop criminal investigation into their
alleged offences.”
The 62-year-old former NITEL territorial manager claimed
that he decided to move out the equipment from NITEL premises for safekeeping,
but was forced to sell the equipment by prospective buyers.
The two buyers, Ugwuma Marcelius and Chukwudi Mba, said they bought the items from auction sale
organised by the National Telecommunications Commission in April, and
claimed that they had documents to prove
that the equipment were bought during the auction.
They claimed to have bought the generators for N650,000
each, while the NITEL transmitter and high-tension cables were bought for
N700,000.
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