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Sagamu Riot: Akarigbo Indicts Police
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Vanguard (Lagos)
March 21, 2003
Posted to the web March 21, 2003
Kolade Larewaju
Abeokuta
THE Akarigbo of Remo, Oba Michael Adeniyi Sonariwo has indicted the police over Monday's riot in Sagamu and called on the state government to set up a judicial commission of enquiry to get to the root of the riot. Receiving Governor Olusegun Osoba who was in Sagamu to commiserate with him Wednesday evening, Oba Sonariwo said that the role of the police in the riot was suspect. He noted that the response of the police was very slow adding that if the response had been like that of the governor and his deputy, the loses which he put at over N500 million would have been minimised.
When I talk, people may misconstrue it but if our DPO had been quick in response, it would not have been like this. The police got wind of it Sunday night and took no action even when the rioters were moving from one point to the other setting the whole place ablaze they took no action."
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Oba Sonariwo who said he lost 13 cars apart from the new palace, his personal house and those of the chiefs lamented that the police also behaved like that during the Sagamu riot of 1999.
He therefore, called for a judicial commission of enquiry to get to the root of the matter. Oba Sonariwo said that what happened to him was the price he had to pay for leadership and that he has been pacifying people not to revenge.
"I have never seen this kind of thing before for some people to burn a Rolls Royce and Jaguar, 13 cars at a go is unbelievable," he lamented.
Earlier Governor Osoba had commiserated with the Oba describing the riot as a bastardisation of the cultural heritage of the people. "It is a curse for anybody to do this kind of thing. A responsible child does not go after the property of his father. I feel bad and upset," he said.
Governor Osoba urged the Remos to quickly begin moves to start the reconstruction of the palace noting that they should count on him for support and that of the people of the state.
"You must not succumb to any blackmail and threat. The initiative must come from you. You can count on our support for the reconstruction and I am confident it shall be better and well," he declared.
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