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Ambode suspends Baale of Shangisha for faking kidnap

Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode yesterday approved the immediate suspension of the Baale of Shangisha in Magodo, Lagos State, Chief Yusuf Ogundare, for faking his kidnap on July 5, 2017, along Centre for Management Development (CMD) Road, in Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of the state.

In a memo dated July 13, 2017, to the Sole Administrator of Ikosi-Isheri LCDA and signed by the Commissioner for Local Government and Community Affairs, Hon. Teslim Folami, Ambode directed Ogundare to stop parading himself henceforth as the Baale of the community till further notice.

According to the memo, Folami said: “I am directed to convey the approval of His Excellency, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, of the suspension of Chief Yusuf Ogundare, Baale of Shangisha, with immediate effect, in accordance with Section 38, sub-section 1 of the Obas and Chiefs Laws of Lagos State, which states, ‘the governor may suspend or depose any Oba or chief whether appointed or after commencement of this law, if he is satisfied that such suspension of deposition is required according to customary law or is necessary in the interest of peace and good government.’

“You are to communicate the decision to the chieftain to stop parading himself as Baale of Shangisha with immediate effect.”

Ogundare’s suspension was approved by the governor moments after the Lagos State Police Command paraded him alongside his younger brother, Mohammed Adams, for conspiring to fake the alleged kidnap.

Adams, on the fateful day, reported the alleged kidnap to the police.

Speaking while parading the two suspects, the Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, said the command on July 5, 2017, received the report of Ogundare’s alleged kidnap and immediately swung into action, in collaboration with other security agencies, especially the Department of State Service.

Owoseni said luck ran out on Ogundare when he was apprehended by men of the Rapid Response Squad in the Alausa area of the state on July 11, 2017, after he was alighted in a suspicious manner from a car, which sped off immediately.

“The chief was despicable and amounted to crying wolf where there was none,” Owoseni said.

He said while making reports, Adams had told security agencies that he was with the Baale at CMD Hotel when some people who claimed they wanted to buy land whisked them away and later dropped him, but investigation revealed that he was not at any time in the hotel with the Baale but was only at the restaurant of the hotel, and after some minutes, he left, and the wife of the Baale actually drove the Venza car allegedly used to abduct the supposed victim into the hotel.

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The CP added that after the suspects were confronted with the indisputable facts, they had no choice than to confess faking the kidnap.

The CP said immediately after Ogundare was allegedly kidnapped, Adams went to the community and called the town crier to order the whole community to close shops and markets, an action aimed at inciting members of the community against the state government.

He said the objective of the suspects was to falsely accuse the Oba of Shangisha as the brain behind the kidnapping, which they indeed did, as a vengeance to him being installed the Oba instead of Ogundare, and also embarrassed the state government and security agencies for arresting him (Ogundare) when he falsely displayed the plate number of Oba of Shangisha on his car.

Also speaking, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Adeniji Kazeem, demanded the unconditional release of the six children kidnapped from Igbonla Model College since May 25.

He said it was disheartening that while the state government and security agencies were working round the clock to secure the release of the children, some unscrupulous persons deemed it fit to raise false alarm.

He said it was situations as this that prompted the governor to sign the Anti-Kidnapping Bill into law, adding that the government would not hesitate to prosecute anyone who runs foul of the law.

The commissioner said just as the law prescribes life imprisonment for kidnapping in the state, same punishment also applies for any person who fakes own kidnap.

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