Police source disclosed that CP Lakanu personally selected some rogue policemen led by one divisional police officer (DPO) on Governor Fayose’s payroll to carry out the assignment of escorting the lawmakers to the state legislature to commence the process of impeachment.
However, the Commissioner of Police also made covert plans with a controversial Army officer in the state, Brigadier-General Aliyu Momoh, to ambush the lawmakers at an Army checkpoint in the town of Itawure in Ekiti State.
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| Here is Governor Fayose sharing chicken to Policemen openly in Ekiti. |
SR sources said that, as soon as the 19 lawmakers arrived at the army
checkpoint, General Momoh had them arrested and detained. General Momoh
was the officer implicated in a scandal captured on an audiotape in
which several PDP officials, including then Minister of State Musiliu
Obanikoro and Minister of police Affairs Jelili Adesiyan, ordered the
officer to unleash troops on supporters of then Governor Kayode Fayemi
who was squaring off with Mr. Fayose in a governorship election.
Shortly after General Momoh’s detention of the Ekiti legislators, a group of thugs reportedly hired by Governor Fayose arrived at the scene and began assaulting the lawmakers. Our sources said the legislators managed to scamper into their vehicles and flee to Osun State, escaping what could have been a brutal attack by Mr. Fayose’s thugs.
SR learnt that the Inspector General of Police, has ordered Lakanu relieved of his job after he investigated a petition detailing the connivance of the state commissioner of police with Governor Fayose.