Immigration Officers Assault LG Chairman In Ibadan

There was commotion at Nigerian Immigration Service office in Ibadan on Wednesday evening as officers of the command and the chairman of the Ibadan North Local Government chairman, Shuaib Oladayo aka Agbaegbe, together with his supporters, engaged in a clash.

The two parties are now trading blames over who attacked the other.

Supporters of the chairman claimed that Agbaegbe had gone to the Immigration office to verify a claim that some officers were using his official letter head to commit fraud at the office.

They said the officers attacked Agbaegbe and two councillors and his aides who went together with him to the office.

.The chairman was allegedly slapped and thoroughly assaulted by the officers.

One of his aides was reported to have escaped and went to the council secretariat which is not far from the office and mobilised party supporters who attacked the NIS office.

Some officers were allegedly injured in the melee.

But an officer of the NIS told journalists that Agbaegbe came to the NIS office with his friend to pick the friend’s passport when trouble started.

The officer who spoke on condition of anonimity said the council chairman was asked to move away from where he stood but he refused and that was the cause of the crisis.

He said that one of the chairman’s aides went and told hoodlums that they had beaten his boss at NIS office and the hoodlums allegedly unleashed terror on everybody on site.

He said they also deflated tyres of vehicles parked on the premises and left the place when men of operation Burst arrived the scene.

The Public Relations Officer of the NIS, Olufemi Adetunji, when contacted said he was still receiving treatment due to injuries he sustained during the attack on the office.

He said the command would issue a release on Thursday.