Arrested OSTMS Chairman, Alowonle On Life Support, As Govt Seeks Prosecution Head of Anti-Kidnapping Squad

Chairman of Osun State Transport Management System (OSTMS), Nurudeen Alowonle, who was arrested by the Police on Monday has been hospilized.

It should be recalled that Alowonle who also double as aide to governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun state was arrested by the opratives of the Osun State Police Command for being in possession of a pistol allegedly belonging to the police.

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Report revealed that Alowonle is currently receiving treatment at a government medical facility in Osogbo after sustaining injuries when he attempted to flee with handcuffs on him.

According to a source, “He’s currently at a hospital in Osogbo. He attempted to flee with the handcuffs on him and sustained injuries in the process.”

However, the Osun State Park Management System also disclosed that Alowonle was shot during arrest in the wee hours of Monday night.

In a statement signed by the State Secretary, Mikaela Popoola, the OSTMS confirmed that its chairman was arrested over domestic issues and was taken to the police custody.

Meanwhile, Osun State Government has raised alarm over the shooting to near death in police custody of the Chairman of Osun Transport Management System, Comrade Iyanda Alowonle over a domestic matter.

According to a release signed by Oluomo Kolapo Alimi, Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment on Tuesday, Alowonle is presently on life support at the Intensive Care Unit of the Osun State Teaching Hospital after a gunshot wound in the abdomen while in the custody of the police at Osogbo.

Video clips of Alowonle in handcuffs and under interrogation circulating in the media space dispelled any excuse that the park chairman was trying to escape. The fact that he was shot in the abdomen as video from his hospital bed confirmed proved that he was shot at close range with intent to eliminate him.

Interactions between the Special Adviser on Security Matters to the State Governor, Mr Samuel Ojo and the Head of Anti-Kidnapping Squad, Moses Lohor provided direct proof that the incident was premeditated to murder Mr Alowonle.

We also note that the issue that generated the purported arrest was a civil matter, not criminally related to have warranted the involvement of Mr Moses Lohor, the head of the Anti-Kidnapping squad except for the repeat of a recent pattern of police harassment of officials of the state government on partisan motivation.

The programmed attempted murder of Mr Alowonle is just one in the series of shootings and attacks on officials of the state by the head of anti-kidnapping squad who regularly acted with impunity and who has not hidden his vow to eliminate supporters of the state government.

As we summoned several meetings to calm frayed nerves, we had a hard time and struggled today to stop reprisal attacks against police establishments across the state due to what the public now see as police partisan conduct in breach of the law.

As we regret a situation in which law enforcers are becoming threat to peace and stability of the state, the state government therefore demands the Inspector General of Police and the National Security Adviser to take judicious note of the increasing breach of state peace by the hostile conduct of some police officers who now shot the innocent and suspects at will.

“ We call for the immediate arrest and prosecution of Mr Moses Lohor, the Head of the Anti- Kidnapping Squad for his wilful act of attempted murder.

“ We demand police impartiality and commitment to rule of law without fixation on partisan considerations;

“We call attention of the National Security Adviser to the increasing threat to peace in Osun state amidst threat to unleash violence ahead of 2026 election

“ We call on the Inspector General of Police to rise to the occasion and abandon any signal that may portray him as acting against Osun peace and stability”, the statement concluded.