Police Pick up Impeached Ijebu East Local Government Chairman, Wale Adedayo

Police have arrested the impeached Chairman of the Ijebu East Local Government, Wale Adedayo.

He was picked up by a team of police officers on Monday.

The former chairman claimed on his Facebook page that he was arrested, following a petition filed against him by the State Government.

He was impeached by councilors in his Local Government for alleged misappropriating the fund of the council.

The impeachment came after he accused the State Government of diverting all the allocation of the state’s 20 Local Government from the Federation account.

He was later picked up by Department of State Service (DSS) which detained him and freed days later.

Last week, Governor Dapo Abioldun said the impeached chairman has to prove the allegation of the diversion of allocation of the councils from the Federation account.

Chairmen of the other 19 Local Governments had distanced themselves from the allegation, saying their allocation was being used to pay salaries of primary school teachers, traditional council, councils’ staff and other sundry bills.

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The former Chairman was also invited and detained by the Ogun State Command of the Department of the State Services, DSS, on the same allegation, for some days before he was released.

Adedayo had in a letter written to a former governor of Ogun State and the national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Olusegun Osoba, alleged that the local governments in the state were running on zero allocation.

He also petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, ICPC.

Confirming the arrest of her husband, wife of the former Chairman, Mrs Kafayat Adedayo, explained that her husband was arrested by officers numbering about 10 from the State police command headquarters, Eleweran, Abeokuta.

Mrs Adedayo said the police officers informed that his arrest was based on a petition written against him by the state government.

“They came on Monday afternoon in a Mistubishi car to effect his arrest. About four of them were in uniform, while others were in mufti.

“The police operatives said they were acting on instruction based on a petition filed against him by the state government.

“He was accosted to Abeokuta by the police,” she said.

When contacted , the State Commissioner of Police, CP Abiodun Alamutu, confirmed Adedayo’s arrest.