In a week-long operation, a total of 470 motorcycles were seized, marking a significant stride in the ongoing operations.
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The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Lawrence Ezemonye, said this on Friday at its 21st convocation.
The packages, he said, cut across commercial bus drivers and passengers.
Corps Commander Stephen Dawulung, Kogi FRSC Sector Commander, made this known in Lokoja.
The spokesman of the Command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, confirmed the development on Tuesday to Vanguard newspaper.
Jejeloye said this on Friday in Ikeja, while speaking with newsmen, during the crushing of the commercial motorcycles.
Some of the commuters and residents spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in separate interviews on Wednesday.
The Chairman of Kabba-Bunu Local Government Area, Moses Olorunleke, gave the order on Monday in Kabba.
Checks revealed that the mayhem started when a hit-and-run driver rammed into some Okada riders in Kabusa area of the city, killing three of them in the process.
The accused, Elias Marcus, 33, a father of one according to the agency’s Director, Press and Public Affairs, Gbadeyan Abdulraheem, always impersonated officials of the Agency with his camouflage trousers and wallet in order to dispossess unsuspecting Okada riders of their bikes and valuables.
PRNigeria learnt that some of them have embraced crimes to make ends meet.
The operations, the agency said is threatening the security architecture of the State as encapsulated in the Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu T.H.E.M.E.S agenda.
Going by words on the streets, media records and all that, the expectation of Nigerians was that aggrieved members would be open to truce in the objective interest of the ruling party and government. It’s also hoped that the openness would enable the Committee to midwife genuine reconciliation among members of the same political family.
The appointment is contained in a statement made available to newsmen Thursday in Benin by the Public Relations Unit of the institution.
Omotowa made the call while delivering the 19th Convocation Lecture of the Igbenidion University, Okada in Edo State.
The university’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Lawrence Ezemonye, made this known on Friday in Okada, Edo State in his address at the 19th Convocation ceremony of the institution.
This was contained in a statement by on behalf of the State Government by Suleiman Iliasu, Commissioner for Works.
Sowore was shot dead in the early hours of Saturday along the Benin-Lagos Expressway as confirmed by the police.
Olajide was killed on Saturday in Okada, Edo State.
The police said the deceased was shot dead in Edo State by gunmen in the early hours of Saturday, just as reported by his brother