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Agbeyegbe: Our guards don’t carry guns - Oando
•Juliet
Okonkwo not a
prostitute
-Landlord
samuel olatunji
Reporter, Lagos
More
puzzles have continued to crop up over the death of aviation critic, Captain
Jerry Agbeyegbe even as his remains were yesterday interred in his hometown,
Warri, Delta State.
An official of the Oando filling
station Alapere, Ketu, Lagos where two suspects; Tunde Ebiwojumi and Adewale
Oloko, were arrested and recently paraded by the police for allegedly killing
Agbeyegbe, has exonerated the two men.
In an exclusive interview with our
reporter, the manager who simply identified himself as Paul, declared that no
dane gun was ever found in the station. In his words: “This is an
expressway and anything could happen. Moreover, the car was not found in front
of the station; it was found near the junction”, Paul insisted.
Both suspects worked as security
guards with the filling station before their arrest over the alleged murder.
The filling station manager said
that both men were clean and could not have killed the late pilot.
He said no dane gun was found on the
two men when the police came to pick them and that both guards were not armed
but given only horse whips (koboko) and torch lights to work with at night.
Paul said that the police in their
desperation to get suspects, arrested the two men who were now being made scape
goats.
The manager further said that in the
cause of police investigations, they (police) went to the houses of the two
staff and found nothing incriminating against them. “These men worked
here for only one month and during this period, we only gave them horse whips
and torch lights to work with at night. Can horse whips and torch lights shoot
a person?” the manager queried.
Paul expressed surprise at police claims
that both men bolted when the police came in the cause of investigation,
saying, “the police came here to pick them at about 11 am. Prior to that,
the director had asked them (Oloko and Ebiwojumi) to wait for the police
because the police had asked all of us to wait for them. They came, picked the
two men and said they were only going to make statements and return, but that
was not to be. They never ran away as the police said”.
On the possibility of the two men
getting back their job after their present predicament, the manger retorted,
“why not? They have not committed any crime. Our prayer is that they
should come out unblemished”.
In a related development, Mrs.
Oyetade, a manager with Bimboy Cool Inn and Restaurant at Ogunmakin Street
Ijesha, Lagos where Juliet Okonkwo, the alleged prostitute who was found with
the late captain in his car, lived for five months before relocating to another
place, has expressed shock that Miss Okonkwo could openly admit that she was a
prostitute when she was not.
The manager told Saturday
Independent that
throughout Juliet Okonkwo’s stay in the guest house, she did not show
traits of being a prostitute as she was gentle, religious and levelheaded.
“We never knew her as a
prostitute and besides, this place is managed by Christians who abhor indecent
behaviour,” said Mrs. Oyetade, a retired police officer.
She said all lodgers in the guest house were thoroughly
screened before admission and expressed shock that Juliet could publicly
proclaim that she was picked on the street by Agbeyegbe for sex.
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