By Gbenga Olarinoye
OSOGBO—The Action Congress, AC, in Osun State has called on the Federal Government to constitute, as a matter of urgency, a Judicial Commission of Enquiry to probe series of political killings in the state.

The party’s call came on the heels of the reported death of Chief Ade Komolafe, former Chairman of DHL Nigeria Limited who was recently attacked and beaten with members of his family by a local government official.

Chief Komolafe was attacked and beaten to a coma at a filling station in Ilesa during fuel scarcity. He was said to have died at a London Hospital where he was receiving treatment for injuries sustained from the attack.

A statement by the Director of Strategy and Research of the party, Mr. Sunday Akere condemned the attack on Komolafe and members of his family by the council official and asked the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. John Moronike to effect the arrest of the assailant.

According to the party, “with the death of the septuagenarian, Chief Komolafe, it now becomes two the number of people that died ostensibly from injuries sustained from physical attack, beating and humiliation meted to them by the same council official.

“It would be recalled that precisely on 10 January 2010, 72-year-old Mr Agbo Obadare, a former Chairman of PDP in Ilesa East local government also died from the head injuries sustained by him when he was attacked and beaten by the same council official on the excuse that he did not support his choice of candidate for the PDP gubernatorial ticket”.

“Osun AC condemns the seeming lawless behaviour of this assailant and the kid-glove treatment the Police and other security operatives are giving him. We believe that it is high time that an independent judicial commission of enquiry be set up to unravel the mystery behind the ceaseless numerous killings and violence being perpetrated in Osun State”.

“To the PDP in Osun State, the entire citizenry has been terrorized, brutalized and dehumanized while life makes no meaning to them. Osun State today is being run like “a state in war or under siege” where life could be taken at the slightest provocation, irrespective of whether you belong to the PDP or not.

“Several instances abound which we have cited in the past and which we will not be tired of citing again if only to make the security agents live up to their responsibility.

The statement added that, “Chief Tony Osanyin was shot dead in Ijebu-jesa over intra-party squabbles on who picks the ticket for the House of Representatives in Obokun/Oriade in 2007.

Alhaja Taibat Orija a.k.a. Jeunkogbadun, the former PDP Women leader in Ede North LG was killed on the night she decampted to the rival ANPP, Alhaji Shuaib Oyedokun’s cousin, Mr Lasisi Gbogboirawo was killed by these agents of death who were angered that his brother was not at home when they came calling”.