The Oyo State Police Command has released the embattled factional leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers in the state, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola aka Tokyo.The court-reinstated chairman of NURTW was arrested on Wednesday during his visit to the Eleyele, Ibadan headquarters of the state police command on the invitation of the Commissioner of Police, Mbu Joseph Mbu.
He was, however, released by the police less than 48 hours after being detained at the Area Command, Iyaganku, Ibadan.
Tokyo explained that he went to the police with necessary evidence to prove his innocence of all the charges levelled against him by the command.
Meanwhile, a socio-cultural group, the Frontline for Justice, has condemned a reaction by the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria in the state on Tokyo’s arrest.
The ACN had, through its state Publicity Secretary, Dauda Kolawole, said that “Tokyo gives an account of what actually transpired during those bloody years to the police and that his arrest and subsequent charge to court by the police would be a litmus test on the police integrity and a demonstration of its partiality or otherwise in the political equation of Oyo State.”
Describing the party’s claim as “total falsehood and misrepresentation of facts,” the group said that it could not understand why the party turned round to castigate their leader in spite of his support for Governor Abiola Ajimobi during his electioneering.
Culled: Punchng
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