…Driver Sustains Gun Shot Injuries.
By Wole Adedeji, Ilorin
A relation of the former Senator Simeon Ajibola, who represented Kwara South senatorial district in the National Assembly, Biola Ajibola has been reported killed in the senator’s farm by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers, because he resisted their kidnap attempt on him.
The younger Ajibola, who doubles as the farm manager of his former senator-brother was reportedly murdered by the invaders, who had stormed the farm, located in Isapa, the country home of the erstwhile senator and pounced on the deceased and his official driver at about 8 o’clock in the morning of the fateful day.
The gun-wielding hoodlums, according to sources, ordered late Ajibola and the driver to surrender themselves for abduction, but he; the deceased, resisted them and was in the process, shot dead in cold blood.
A family source told journalists in Isapa that while the kidnappers were dragging the driver; one Felix Segun Adeleye, who they had already shot in the leg into the bush, they sighted some motorcyclists coming their way and abandoned him and fled, while still shooting sporadically apparently to scare away the approaching cyclists.
The motorcyclists, according to the sources, thereafter gave the kidnappers a hot chase, but the outcome of the chase was not known as at the time of filing this report on Thursday morning.
Fielding questions from newsmen in Isapa, the people said they suspected that former Senator Ajibola might have been the target of the hoodlums.
They said, “Thank God that Senator Simeon Ajibola was not around. Perhaps their intention was to take him away. But the supervisor in charge of the farm was not lucky as he was. He got killed when the kidnappers invaded the farm.
“Senator Ajibola’s driver, who was attached to the late supervisor, was wounded and he is currently in the hospital in Ilorin receiving treatment.”
A source, who pleaded anonymity, when he was asked by journalists how sure he was that the gunmen were kidnappers, said, “The driver told me that they attempted to take him away after killing the supervisor of the farms. But that they abandoned him when they saw some motorcyclists approaching and who had confronted them.”
Sources in Isapa also informed nesmen that the matter had been reported at the Osi Police Divisional Headquarters in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, while the remains of late Ajibola had been evacuated and deposited in a morgue.
When contacted, the spokesman of Kwara State Police Command, SP Ajayi Okasanmi, confirmed the incident. He said, “The corpse had been evacuated from the scene. Policemen are on the trail of the hoodlums.”
