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Police arrest Unilorin lecturer over social media post on Kogi road project

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A lecturer at the University of Ilorin, Olorunsuwa Ola, has narrated how he was arrested at his home in Ilorin, Kwara state, by the police acting on a petition by the Kogi State Security Adviser, Jerry Omodara.

Ola, a lecturer in the Department of Political Science, said he was arrested on 16 September by a team of about eight police officers and taken to Lokoja.

He said the officers did not present a warrant of arrest to him despite his request to see one.

“I requested for the warrant of arrest. They said the warrant of arrest was at the police headquarters,” he said.

He added that the officers told him they would take him to the police headquarters in Ilorin to see the warrant and meet his lawyer.

“While we were going, we got to a point where they were supposed to veer towards the police headquarters. I told them that no, this is the way to police headquarters. They now told me that no, they were taking me to Kogi state,” he said.

The petition shows that  Omodara complained to the Commissioner of Police, Kogi state command, on 11 September, demanding that Ola be made to produce documents supporting his claim about the road project.

The petition, titled “A Petition Against Mr. Elijah Ololunsuwa on His Grievous Allegation on the Recently Advertised Reconstruction of Kabba-Olle-Iluke Road by the Kogi State Government,” accused the lecturer of making “false allegation” and publications against the Kogi government.

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