| Ogunlewe, 8 others
arrested over Funso Williams’ death
• Moved to Alagbon • Other guber aspirants
declared wanted • Knife recovered from sofa
By BIYI ADEGOROYE and TOYOSI OGUNSEYE
Saturday, July
29, 2006
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•Funsho
Williams
Photo: Sun News Publishing |
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Former Works and Housing Minister and Peoples’ Democratic
Party governorship aspirants in Lagos State Senator Adeseye
Ogunlewe and eight others have been arrested over the murder
of Eng. Funso Williams.
Also in police net are Ogunlewe’s campaign director
and some police details attached to Funso Williams’
house during the gruesome slaughter of the former commissioner
of works in Lagos State whose profile has improved lately
posing a lot of threat to other aspirants.
Ogunlewe’s address Friday morning at about 2am was based
on reasonable suspicion that he could assist the police with
information and disclose whatever he knows about the matter
which has received wide condemnations since Thursday morning.
Police sources told our reporter Friday about the recovery
form the sofa of the knife believed to have been used to slaughter
the governorship aspirant at his Dolphin Estate house.
Ogunlewe was humiliated as laid on the floor of the cell where
he laid without any footwear and his characteristic cap. “How
time changes. I saw him right there in the cell, lying down
like a common criminal,” a police source said.
The top police officer, which sighted him in the cell, however,
noted that detectives were yet to take his statement. He was
later brought into the conference room around 1:00pm Friday
for lunch. Looking unperturbed, he devoured a plate of rice
brought to him by members of his family.
Shortly thereafter, the nine suspects were moved to the Force
Criminal Investigation Department (FCID), Alagbon in Lagos
for thorough investigation.
As a way of spreading their drag nets, Saturday Sun
gathered that detectives have opened their searchlight on
two other top governorship aspirants in the state. When attempts
to speak with them on phone failed, detectives resorted to
dropping invitation letters at their campaign offices.
Meanwhile, a security expert, Dr. Ona Ekhomu has decried the
entry of the culture of violence into the polity. He condemned
the murder and challenged the police leadership to take appropriate
professional steps like blood sample evidence, the knife and
other materials, which could match them with the criminal.
He said the fact that detectives sealed up the crime scene,
taking some blood samples and the rest, showed some elements
of seriousness. But warned that it should not go the way of
the investigations into other previous assassinations in the
country.
“At every point in time, the executive must be insulated
against any attack. The occurrence showed there were no adequate
security measures in place at the house. With such in place,
detectives would have been able to check the ingress and egress
(entry and exit) in the house, thereby facilitating the arrest
of perpetrators,” he said.
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