OPC intensifies search for Bamigbetan

OPC intensifies search for abducted LG chairman

*we cannot work with OPC-Police

Juliana Francis

As the search for the kidnapped local government chairman, Mr. Kehinde Bamigbetan enters its fourth day, founder of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Dr. Frederick Fasehun, has revealed that OPC members all over South-West has been already mobilized to join in the search for he abducted man.

This was even as the Lagos state police command has emphatically stated that it will never work or collaborate with OPC in the search for Bamigbetan.

Fasehun said: “The search has already started. I have mobilized OPC members, all over the South-West to be on the search for the kidnapped chairman. I was in Ondo State yesterday to mobilize OPC people there to action.”

Reacting to police rebuffing of OPC assistance in the search for Bamigbetan, Fasehun said: “If we’re earlier on the mark, we’ll report to the police. It’s up to them to work on information we give them or not. Whatever will lead to us finding the victim and making sure he is alright is what OPC is concerned about for now.”

Asked whether OPC will alert police if the happened to discover the location where Bamigbetan was being held or OPC would carry out the rescue operation itself, Fasehun said event would tell.

Reacting to OPC claim that it was working and collaborating with the police to rescue the victim and catch his abductors, deputy police spokesman, Damasus Ozoani, refuted such claim, stressing that the police will never work with OPC under whatever circumstances.

His words: “We can never work or collaborate with OPC. They’re among the banned militia group. We’re not working with them! Our main target is to see to the release of the victim. We can work with our sister agencies like SSS, the military or even immigration, but not OPC. OPC does not have legitimate right, so we can’t work with them. They’re not collaborating with police. They can do whatever they like.”