The Oyo State Police Command on Friday said it has begun investigation into the murder of a trado-medical practitioner and founder of Oko Oloyun Worldwide, Alhaji Fatai Yusuf, popularly called Oko Oloyun.
It stated that the deceased’s workers and his two police escorts were being questioned by a team of crack detectives from the homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Iyaganku, Ibadan, over the incident.
The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural organisation, Afenifere, has, however, described the murder as the continued sad and long story of insecurity in Yorubaland.
Oko Oloyun was killed by some hoodlums around Akeroro community on the Abeokuta/Igbo-Ora/Iseyin Road on Thursday. The deceased, travelling in a convoy of two cars with some of his aides, was allegedly ambushed and shot dead by the unidentified assailants.
In a statement on Friday by the state police spokesperson, Gbenga Fadeyi, the command added that the state Commissioner of Police, Shina Olukolu, wished to put the record straight regarding Oko Oloyun’s death.
The statement indicated, “A report was received by the Divisional Police Officer, Igbo-Ora that around Akeroro Area on the Abeokuta/Igbo-Ora/Iseyin Road, the two-car convoy of the deceased was allegedly ambushed shortly after passing through five different police stop-and-search teams along the route by yet-to-be identified assailants who fired at the moving vehicles on the road from the thick forest.”
It noted that the two-man armed escorts of policemen protecting the deceased engaged the assailants who escaped into the forest after a shot had hit the deceased who later died of bullet injuries.
“However, an interesting twist to the story was that the deceased probably had earlier detected an alleged book-keeping records fraud in his Lagos office which subsequently led to the burning/destruction of some financial/book keeping records.
“In addition to other possible motives, a plausible nexus is, therefore, being suspected between the fire incident and the attack on the deceased,” the statement read.
