The reinstated chairman of the Oyo State council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola, aka Tokyo, in the early hours of Friday, fled Ibadan, the state capital, alleging that there was a threat to his life.
Tokyo, who spoke with journalists on the telephone from his hideout, said he decided to run for his dear life after the leakage of an alleged plan by some top government officials to descend on him with the support of the police within 48 hours. “I’m daily being hunted. Those who should act on various petitions of ceaseless killings of NURTW members in Oyo State are helpless, and with the fresh order by the authorities in the state to the State Police Command to either arrest or get rid of me in 48 hours, I cannot but leave the shores of Ibadan because he who fights and run, lives to fight another day,” Akinsola told journalists.
He said that a source privy to a meeting where the decision was taken called him at about 2 am on Friday and warned him that he would blame himself if he toyed with the warning.
He added that the plan was to take him out of circulation ahead of next Wednesday’s hearing of the case he instituted against the state government on the proscription of the union.
Akinsola alleged that a fake security report had been prepared and forwarded to the acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Hafiz Ringim, with the aim of nailing him.
He said that the plan to arrest and keep him incommunicado was against two subsisting court orders granted by Justices M.O. Olagunju and O.I. Aiki of the State High Courts 11 and 15 respectively, to the effect that he and 17 others should not be arrested or detained until the matters in courts were disposed off.
Source:http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201010234532239
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