Details of how the Chairman of Zenon Petroleum and Gas, Mr. Femi Otedola, escaped the wrath of the angry protesters that stormed his house on the Day 2 of the mass protest against the withdrawal of the subsidy on petrol have begun to emerge.
Sources close to Otedola, who is one of the beneficiaries of the subsidy fund, told The Eagle Online that Otedola had to scale the fence of his Ikoyi, Lagos home as soon as he was told that the protesters were at his gate.
It was learnt that Otedola was assisted by his security aides to scale the fence of his house as the angry protesters charged at his gate.
A source told The Eagle Online: “We actually saw the protesters late.
“And once we knew their mission was to get at our boss, we became scared, fearing they might force their way in.
“Hence, we had to assist him (Otedola) to escape by climbing the fence from the back of the house.”
The Eagle Online was told reliably that Otedola is now in his London, United Kingdom home.
He is said not to be in a hurry to return to Nigeria after what the source described as “a scary experience.”
Thousands of protesters who took part in the Day 2 of the mass action aimed at reversing the pump price of petrol and instilling transparency in governance had stormed the homes of some of the major players in the political and economic sectors of the country.
Others whose homes were stormed apart from Otedola were a former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; and a major player in the business industry, Oba Otudeko.
But contrary to the initial report that none of them was in when the protesters visited their homes, Otedola was actually in.
This article was first published on January 15, 2012.