CSO Raises Alarm Over Whereabout Of Osun Transport Manager

A Civil Society Organisation, World Institute for Peace (WIP), has raised alarm over whereabout of Park Management and Transport System Chairman, Nurudeen Iyanda popularly known as Alowonle, who was arrested for alleged gun running.

Alowonle who was reportedly shot by policemen after his arrest for gun running and was taken to the state teaching hospital for treatment.

The WIP in a statement by its Executive Director, Comrade Lamina Omotoyosi, Sunday, alleged that it appeared that the police authority and Osun government have succeeded in manipulating the investigation of gun running allegation against Alowonle, alleging that the disappearance of the suspect from hospital calls for concern.

The group threatened to embarked on peaceful protest in Osogbo, if the government and the Police fail to brief the public about the whereabouts of the suspect.

“We are constrained to raise this public alarm and express our readiness to embark on public protest if our insinuation is validated except the police authority and the state government explain otherwise, the whereabouts of a gun running suspect Nurudeen Alowonle who was arrested on 18th of November, 2024 and allegedly shot in the abdomen by the police.

“We have been monitoring the trend very closely and have it on good authority that Alowonle has been discharged from the Uniosun teaching hospital since last week Thursday and as at the time of issuing this statement, there is no information that is in police custody or government house clinic. We have no reason not to believe that the Chairman Osun State Park Management and Transport System (OSPMTS) is currently at large because our intelligence confirmed that he is not in police custody.

“We commend the Inspector General of Police, Dr Kayode Egbetokun and the Osun State Commissioner of Police, CP Muhammad Umar Abba for initiating investigation on the circumstance surrounding his arrest and alleged shooting in the abdomen. We are fully aware about a team of detectives from the Police Force Headquarter, Abuja who visited Osun for the investigation but it is sad that police appeared to be chicken out with state government blackmails which might have aided Alowonle’s escape.

“Our organisation noted how the state government succeeded in blackmailing the police to vacate the Uniosun teaching hospital where Alowonle was being treated and how the state security outfits Amotekun took over the security of the hospital perhaps with the motive to get him escaped and evade investigation. The standard practice in such circumstances is for the police to stay with the suspect or transferred the suspect to the police hospital for treatment to face investigation but obviously handed him over to the state government despite their bias and stand to protect the suspect,” Omotoyosi said.