A 20-year-old man, Anthony Daniel, who was arrested for allegedly shooting a bushmeat seller, Wasiu Ayodele, with the aim of killing him, has confessed that he deliberately carried out the act to avenge the murder of his friend by his target and his gang members.
Daniel was arrested by the Ogun State Police Command after initially escaping when he shot Ayodele, thinking he had died.
The command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, who spoke on his arrest at a recent press briefing, said that the suspect invited the victim to come and buy bushmeat at Abatan/Alagbagba Village.
But on getting to a spot on the road on his Bajaj motorcycle with a friend who accompanied him, the victim saw Daniel with a gun which he fired at his neck.
The PPRO said that the victim was rushed to a hospital where he was responding to treatment, while detectives from Homicide Section went after the suspect and got him arrested.
In an interview with Daniel, he said, without any remorse that he was trying to fulfil the promise he made to his late friend when he was being buried that he would avenge his death by bringing down his killers.
Daniel said: “I was only trying to avenge the killing of my friend. My friend was killed in February this year and his motorcycle was taken away. That day, I was going home with him. He parked when I wanted to urinate. As I got down from the bike and was doing that, I looked back and noticed that some men were trying to take my friend’s motorcycle from him. It was about 3pm. I turned to go and help him but I saw them brandishing an axe so I ran away. That was how they killed my friend with axe and cutlass.
“Unfortunately for one of them, I recognised his face. On the candle night, in preparation for his burial, I made a vow to my friend that I would avenge his death. Later, I saw one of the killers whom I recognised and decided to kill him. I’m not a cult member and my friend was not before he was murdered. He was just killed for them to take his motorcycle.
“I started planning the elimination. When I saw Ayodele again, I started trailing him and doing some findings about him until I got his mobile phone number. I learnt that he used to trade in bushmeat.
“Then I called him that I had bushmeat to sell to him, asked him to come and meet me at 1 am. He promised to come.
“I stole my father’s gun which he uses for hunting, and he didn’t know when I left the house at midnight because we had separate rooms.
“When he came, he knew that I wanted to shoot him and tried to outsmart me, but I was faster than him.”
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The PDP spokesman recalled how the opposition party had on various occasions alerted that the APC government had ceded sovereignty over a large portion of our country to terrorists, “many of whom were imported into our country by the APC.”
He further stated: “From the video, in a brazen manner, terrorists as non-state actors boldly showed their faces, boasting, admitting and confirming their participation in the Kuje Prison break, some of whom were former prison inmates who were either jailed or awaiting trial for their previous terrorism act against our country.
“Nigerians can equally recall the confession by the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai that the APC government knows the plans and whereabouts of the terrorists but failed to act.
According to Ologunagba, about 18,000 Nigerians have been killed by terrorists between 2020 and 2022 “as the criminals continue to be emboldened by the failures and obvious complicity of the APC and to which the PDP had always drawn attention.”
“This is not politics; this is about humanity and leadership, which leadership sadly and unfortunately is missing in our country at this time,” he said.
The PDP added that it is appalled by “the lame response by the apparently helpless, clueless and deflated Buhari Presidency, wherein it told an agonizing nation that President Buhari “has done all and even more than what was expected of him as Commander in Chief by way of morale, material and equipment support to the military…”
“This is a direct admission of incapacity and failure by the Buhari Presidency and the APC. At such a time, in other climes, the President directly leads the charge and takes drastic measures to rescue and protect his citizens.
“In time of adversity, the President transmutes into Consoler-in-Chief to give hope and succour to the citizens. Painfully, Nigeria does not have a President who cares and can stand as Consoler-in-Chief to the citizens.
“It has now become very imperative for Nigerians to take note and realize that the only solution to this unfortunate situation is to hold the APC government accountable. We must come together as a people, irrespective of our political, ethnic and religious affiliations to resist the fascist-leaning tendencies of the APC administration.
Ologunagba called for an urgent meeting of the National Council of State to advise on the way to go over the nation’s worsening insecurity.
“Our nation must not fall. The resilient Nigerian spirit and ‘can-do- attitude’ must be rekindled by all to prevail on the President to immediately and without further delay, accede to the demand by the PDP and other well-meaning Nigerians to convene a special session of the National Council of State to find a lasting solution since the President has, in his own admission, come to his wit’s end,” the PDP spokesman declared.
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