The Founder of the O’odua People’s
Congress (OPC), Dr Frederick Fasehun, on Tuesday ordered a manhunt by the
group for those involved in the alleged torture of two women in Ejigbo, Lagos
State.
Fasehun also commended the Lagos
State House of Assembly and the Majority Leader, Mr Mojibayo Adeyeye, for
placing N1 million and N250,000 bounties respectively on the culprits.
The News Agency of
Nıgerıa (NAN) reports that the Lagos House of Assembly, after a
public hearing on the matter on Jan. 8, promised a reward of N1 million for
information that would lead to arrest of the culprits.
A NGO, Women Arise, had on Dec. 23,
2013, staged a protest to the assembly to create awareness on the abuse and
brutalisation of the women sometime in February, 2013.
The women were accused of stealing
pepper.
In a statement in Lagos, Fasehun
ordered members of the congress to hunt for the culprits and turn them over to
law enforcement agents.
According to him, the move by the
assembly and the majority leader cleared Nigerians of corporate guilt in human
rights violation.
He, however, urged members of the
public to discountenance insinuations that members of the OPC had a hand in the
incident.
“The treatment meted out to them
violently contradicts everything OPC stands for.
“OPC is an organisation specifically
dedicated to promoting the corporate interest of the Yoruba nationality and
upholding the dignity of the Yoruba man or woman.
“Authentic members of OPC could be
easily recognised through identity cards bearing their personal signatures, and
issued by the group’s national headquarters,” Fasehun said.
According to him, the police can
testify that OPC vigilante operatives never resort to extra-judicial treatment,
torture or killing of apprehended offenders irrespective of the nature of the
offence.
Fasehun said that an average OPC
member had been trained and had sworn to hold as sacrosanct, human rights.
He urged relevant authorities to
bring the criminals and their godfathers to book.
“This will serve the purpose of
justice as well as act as a deterrent to others,” he said. (NAN)
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