Mukaila Lamidi, also known as Auxillary, the Chairman of the disbanded Park Management System in Oyo State, informed the state police command on Saturday that it was impossible to declare him ‘wanted’
According to reports, the police stormed Auxiliary’s hideaway in the state capital of Ibadan on Tuesday morning and confiscated rifles and other hazardous weaponry. On Friday, 78 alleged hoodlums were also detained.
Following this raid, the Police Command issued a wanted notice for him for his involvement in the trafficking of firearms, armed robbery, and kidnapping, among other crimes.
Auxiliary has stated that he is dedicated to maintaining the calm in the state and that he will follow the governor’s decisions regarding transport unions.
The ex-chairman who was reacting to the allegations of violence allegedly perpetrated by his boys, a few days ago in Ibadan, said from his hideout on a live radio programme that he is a peace-lover, who could not have turned the state into a theatre of war over the dissolution of the PMS by the governor.
Also speaking on the position of the state Police that declared him wanted, he insisted that such a declaration was not meant for him, querying, “When I’m not a fool, how could I have hidden or stockpiled those weapons at my residence?”
However, he warned his boys not to foment trouble or engage in any act of violence in Ibadan and other parts of the state, adding that, “No individual, no matter how highly influential he or she is, is bigger than government.”
Auxiliary, while promising to comply and cooperate with the reform and integration process of other driver unions into the PMS, pointing out that, “If the new reform doesn’t favour me, I will accept the outcome.”
