Dr Frederick Fasehun Orders OPC Manhunt

The Owner of the O’odua People’s Congress (OPC) Dr Frederick Fasehun, on Tuesday ordered a manhunt by the group for those involved in the alleged torture of two females in Ejigbo, Lagos State.
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Fasehun also commended the Lagos State House of Assembly and the Majority Leader, Mr Mojibayo Adeyeye, for placing N1 million and N250,000 bounties respectively on the culprits.
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It can be reported that the Lagos House of Assembly, after a public hearing on the matter on Jan. 8, promised a cash of N1 million for information that would lead to arrest of those culprits.
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A NGO, Women Arise, had on Dec. 23, 2013, staged a protest to the assembly to create awareness on the abuse and brutalisation of the women sometime in February, 2013.
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The women were accused of stealing pepper.
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In a statement in Lagos, Fasehun ordered members of the congress to hunt for the culprits and turn them over to law enforcement agents.
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According to him, the move by the assembly and the majority leader cleared Nigerians of corporate guilt in human rights violation.
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He, however, urged members of the public to discountenance insinuations that members of the OPC had a hand in the incident.
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“The treatment meted out to them violently contradicts everything OPC stands for.
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“OPC is an organisation specifically dedicated to promoting the corporate interest of the Yoruba nationality and upholding the dignity of the Yoruba man or woman.
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“Authentic members of OPC could be easily recognised through identity cards bearing their personal signatures, and issued by the group’s national headquarters,” Fasehun said.
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According to him, the police can testify that OPC vigilante operatives never resort to extra judicial treatment, torture or killing of apprehended offenders irrespective of the nature of the offence.
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Fasehun said that an average OPC member had been trained and had sworn to hold as sacrosanct, human rights.
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He urged relevant authorities to bring the criminals and their godfathers to book.
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“This will serve the purpose of justice as well as act as a deterrent to others,” he said.