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 "Killers of my son threatening my life" - father of slain apprentice cries out

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FROM SEGUN OLATUNJI, ABEOKUTA
The father of the 25-year-old apprentice refrigerator technician, Sunday Ad­efuye, who was allegedly shot dead on August 5 at Ogba-Ayo in Ijoko-Ota, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State by some suspected hoodlums over the lingering chieftaincy crisis in the town, has cried out to the Inspec­tor General of Police, Mr. Solomon Arase, the state and the federal gov­ernments to urgently bring the kill­ers of his son to book.
Mutiu Adefuye yesterday raised the alarm that the suspected killers of his son, loyal to the rival claimant to the throne of the Onijoko, Oba Lasisi Ogunseye, had been walking freely and threatening him and members of his family as well as a friend of his late son, Olamilekan Oladitan who was also allegedly shot along with his late son but narrowly escaped death during last month’s violent attack.
Adefuye, who claimed to have peti­tioned the assistant inspector general of police, Zone II, Onikan, Lagos and the Ogun State Commissioner of Po­lice, Mr. Abdulamjid Ali wondered why a murder suspect would be grant­ed bail by the police.
He, therefore, appealed to the in­spector general of police, the state and federal governments that the sus­pected killers of his son should not be allowed to go scot-free.
Only last Saturday, the police in Oko-Oba, Lagos arrested Mohammed Ogunseye alleged to have led the sus­pects who shot dead Adefuye’s son and handed him over to the operatives of the Criminal Investigation Depart­ment of the Ogun State Police Com­mand who detained him at its Elew­eran, Abeokuta headquarters briefly. Ogunseye was, however, released on bail by the police on Wednesday.
Already, the police have arraigned a 24-year-old man, Idris Adejumo, alias Aloma for the alleged murder of Adefuye’s son in collaboration with others still at large. Aloma is current­ly being remanded in Oba Prison over the matter.
The lingering violent rivalry be­tween Oba Alani Matanmi and Oba Lasisi Ogunseye over the Onijoko of Ijoko Ota stool has claimed no fewer than 40 lives in the past eight years, while property worth hundreds of millions of naira had also been de­stroyed.
The 51-year-old distraught father of the victim, however, alleged at a press conference in Abeokuta that Oba Ogunseye’s son, who after his initial detention by the police had since re­turned to Ijoko, had been boasting that the masterminds of his arrest should stop bothering themselves because he had the financial wherewithal to al­ways buy his freedom.
Adefuye said: “I’m the father of Sunday Adefuye who was killed by the sons of Ogunseye and their ac­complices in Ijoko last August 5. What I want is that Nigerians should not watch and allow the murderers of my son to go scot-free. They killed my son like a chicken.
He was com­ing from my house with his friends when they were attacked by the sus­pects who shot him dead. My son and his friends were riding on a motorcy­cle when the gang members driving in a CRV jeep shot at them.”
[Sunnews]