Lagos State Government on Thursday suspended the Baale of Shangisha in Magodo, Chief Yusuf Ogundare for faking his kidnap.
On July 5, 2017, Chief Ogundare’s family had reported that he was kidnap along Center for Management Development (CMD) Road in Ikosi-Isheri Local Council Development Area (LCDA) of the State.
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According to police, it however, turned out that the report was false as the monarch conspired with his wife and brother to fake his alleged kidnap and embarrassed the state government.
The State’s Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni while parading Chief Ogundare and his brother said the suspect’s aim was to falsely accuse the Oba of Shangisha as the brain behind the kidnap, a vengeance on the latter for being installed the Oba instead of Ogundare, and also embarrassed the State Government as well as security agencies for arresting him (Ogundare) when he falsely displayed the plate number of Oba of Shangisha on his car.
“On July 11 at about 10pm, a team of RRS patrol officers working around Alausa had sighted a vehicle drop a male adult in a suspicious manner close by Shoprite along the Secretariat road. The speed with which that car drove off attracted them to that spot and fortunately before they got to the spot, the car had taken off and a quick inquiry revealed that it was the Baale that was allegedly kidnapped.
“Immediately after while Ogundare was being debriefed, he sold a dummy that the kidnappers dropped him off but unknowingly to him, it had been found out that on the 5th of July, the day he was allegedly kidnapped in Lagos, investigation had revealed that he was driving around in Ibadan around Ashi; he went to Ilorin, he went to Iwo, he was just on a frolic.
“And unknowingly to him as well that because of information that had gotten to security services that his younger brother and his wife were being questioned and were actually in custody because of some discrepancies that were noticed in the interaction they had with security agencies, and in furtherance of the synergy existing between the Police and DSS, we jointly compared notes and our findings were such that the act of the chief was despicable and amounted to crying wolf where there is none,” Owoseni said.
