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GOVERNOR Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State, on Sunday, July 16, deposed the suspended Yusuf Ogundare, Baale of Shangisha in Magodo, Lagos for faking his abduction, which allegedly took place on July 5.
Ogundare was suspended on Friday, July 14, moments after he was paraded alongside Mohammed Adams, his brother, by the Lagos State Police Command.
A statement by Muslim Folami, commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, said the governor ordered Ogundare to henceforth desist from parading himself as the Baale of Shangisha or discharge any duties attached to chieftaincy matters in the state.
Folami said: “Governor Akinwunmi Ambode has authorised the deposition and prosecution of Chief Yusuf Mutiu Ogundare, Baale of Shangisha with immediate effect.
“This is in accordance with Section 38, subsection 1 of the Obas and Chiefs Laws of Lagos State inter-alia. Furthermore, he (Ogundare) is to stop parading himself, purports to exercise or discharge any of the duties attached to Chieftaincy Matters with immediate effect.”
Folami said the deposition followed the confession of the Baale to security services that he staged his own kidnap to blackmail the government.
Fatai Owoseni, commissioner of Police, while parading the suspects at the Lagos House in Ikeja, said how they conspired to perfect the fake kidnap, all in a bid to implicate the Oba of Magodo, as well as rubbish the government and security agencies.
Owoseni said six days after the incident, men of the Rapid Response Squad, RRS, on patrol in Alausa area at about 10pm apprehended Ogundare after he was dropped in a suspicious manner by a car which sped off immediately.
— Jul 17, 2017 @ 09:55 GMT
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