Dr. Frederick Fasehun of the Oodua
Peoples’ Congress (OPC) has ordered a manhunt for some men who allegedly
tortured and sodomised two women accused of stealing pepper at the Ejigbo Area
Council of Lagos State.
This was also as he commended the
Lagos State House of Assembly and the Majority Leader, Honourable Mojibayo
Adeyeye, for placing N1 million and N250,000 bounties respectively on the heads
of the offenders and distanced OPC members from those who attacked the women.
Fasehun ordered OPC members to hunt
down the tormentors and turn them over to law-enforcement authorities.
Fasehun explained that the move by
the House and Adeyeye had cleared Nigerians of corporate guilt in the gross
violation of human rights.
Challenging anyone to provide proof
that those responsible for the inhuman act were members of his group, Fasehun
said authentic members of the OPC could be easily recognised through identity
cards bearing his personal signature and issued by the group’s national
headquarters.
He said: “How will the Iya Oloja
and Baba Oloja, responsible for the day-to-day running of the market,
claim ignorance of something that happened under their nose? What happened to
those women is not only evil, it is dehumanizing.
“The treatment meted out to them
violently contradicts everything OPC stands for. OPC is an organisation
specifically dedicated to promoting the corporate interest of the Yoruba
nationality and upholding the dignity of the Yoruba man or woman.”
According to Fasehun, the average
OPC member had been trained and had sworn to hold as sacrosanct the constitutional
provisions of the Rights of human beings.
This, he said, would serve the
purpose of justice as well as act as a deterrent.
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