Shocker: Police Killed My Aide – Oshiomhole

Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the executive governor of Edo state, has laid the blame for the assassination of his Special Adviser and Personal Secreatry, Mr. Olaitan Oyerinde, squarely at the doorstep of the Nigeria Police.Oshiomhole made this allegation on Thursday in Abuja while speaking at the launching of the new code of conduct for the Nigerian police. The petite governor supported his allegation with the explanation that both the assassin and the weapon used to murder the late Oyerinde were in police custody as at the time the heinpus crime was committed.

He said, “The man, who was involved in the murder according to the record of the police including the entry made by a DPO (Divisional Police Officer) in a police station, was already under police detention at the time my private secretary was murdered.

“The weapon that was used for the murder was used for armed robbery earlier, recovered by the police and under police custody at the time my secretary was murdered.

“So, the man who murdered my secretary was in police custody; the gun he used was in police custody and this is the findings of the police. The only conclusion that can be reached is that the police ordered the killing of my private secretary.”

The former aide to the comrade governor, who was shot and killed in front of his wife and children at his residence in Benin City by suspected assassins, was close to Mr Oshiomole during his days as a labour leader. And it was not unsurprising that the governor was almost overwhelmed with emotions as he called for the investigation of the Deputy Inspector General of police in charge of criminal investigation and possible dismissal if he is found culpable in the death of late Oyerinde.

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Oshiomhole sues magazine, late journalist over libel

Edo state governor Adams Oshiomhole has sued a dead journalist Ahmed  Asekome and his soft sell  news magazine, News of the People, over libel.

In the case No. B/556/2011, between Governor Adams Oshiomhole and Dockland Communications Limited, publishers of News of the People magazine, the governor alleged that the content of the publication which was published sometimes last year carried on the front page and page 19 titled  “Oshiomhole’s Sex Power Exposed: Impregnates  young girl six months after death of wife” was libelous to him.

He told the court presided over by Justice (Mrs.) Efe Ikponmwonba that in the edition, he was also alleged to have bought the girl a jeep; that he was interfering in academics of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma on behalf of the girl, and that he used sexual performance enhancement drugs and that he has done traditional marriage to the alleged girl, adding that the edition which was widely circulated coincided with the preparations of one of his daughter’s wedding.

Asked by the lead prosecuting counsel K. O. Igiebor why he was demanding for damages, the governor who personally testified as PW/1, replied that the said publication caused him and his children serious psychological trauma six months after the death of his wife.

“When I called a brother governor to sponsor my daughter’s wedding, the governor said he was confused, and asked me if I was the one doing the marriage or my daughter, adding that he was reading a magazine which said that he (Oshiomhole) was about getting married to a university student, and that the said wife to be was already pregnant.”

The former Edo correspondent of the News of the People  who was said to have written the story Ahmed  Asekome died last year after a brief illness.

The case was adjourned to the 25 of June, 2012 .

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