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Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) ’
Apr 7th, 2010 |
By Bankole Alao David |
Category: NEWS
Following the recent disbandment of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and Eagle Squad, by Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mr Olusegun Solomon, members of the public have been reacting to the development with different opinions. OSUN DEFENDER investigation revealed that residents of Osogbo, the state capital, who had bitter experiences with the two anti-robbery squads, welcomed [...]
Tags: Eagle Squad, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)
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Mar 30th, 2010 |
By Bankole Alao David |
Category: Front Page Story
The Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Olusegun Solomon has carried out a major shake-up in the formation of the state Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) and the Eagle Squad units of police in the state. The Officers-In-Charge (OC) and other top officers in the two anti-robbery squads, who are major forces in combating armed robbery [...]
Tags: ASP Jude Agbanajelu, Eagle Squad, Osun Election Petition Retrial, Osun State Commissioner of Police - Mr Olusegun Solomon, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)
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Jul 4th, 2009 |
By admin |
Category: Front Page Story
THE aftermath of armed political thuggery employed by the embattled Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to rig the 2007 general elections in Osun State, has taken its toll on the state Commissioner for Education, Mr Jelili Adesiyan, as he was detained and grilled by men of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) for allegedly aiding and abetting [...]
Tags: Alani Omisore, Alhaji Ademola Razak, complicity in the murder of Chief Ige, Iya Zukura, Iyiola Omisore, killing of Chief Bola Ige, Lambe Oyasope, Lekan Oyediran, Mr Jelili Adesiyan, Mr. Ademola Rasaki a.k.a Landero, Mukaila (Baba Zukura), Osun State Commissioner for Agriculture - Mr Adekunle Alao (Lele), Osun State Commissioner for Education - Mr. Jelili Adesiyan, robbery commissioner, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)
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Jan 17th, 2009 |
By admin |
Category: NEWS
SEQUEL to the mass arrest and detention of indigenes of Aagba community in Boripe Local Government Council Area of Osun State by the police for participating in a peaceful protest in the town recently, the Inspector-General of Police, Mr Mike Okiro, has been urged to intervene in the crisis rocking the community over the next [...]
Tags: Abass Oyedokun, Ademola Adewale and Fatai Akintunde, Alaagba of Aagba, Boripe Local Government Council area, Ibrahim Akintunde, Inspector-General of Police (IGP) - Sir Mike Okiro, late Oba Felix Abidoye, Mr. Wilson Atirene, Osun State Police Command under Mr. John Moronike, palace of Alaagba, Raufu Adewale, Special Adviser (SA) to the Osun State Governor on legislative matters - Mr Rufus Ogunwole, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)
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Jan 17th, 2009 |
By admin |
Category: Front Page Story
•CP Moronike’s Compromise Raised •Investigation On Extra-judicial Killings Soon THE unprecedented compromise of Osun State Police Command has finally opened to the Police Force Headquarters, Abuja, as the establishment of the much dreaded ‘Eagle Squad’ by the state Commissioner of Police (CP), John Moronike has been disowned by the nation’s police authority. It would be [...]
Tags: ASP Jude Agbanajelu, Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders (CACOL), Commissioner of Police (CP) John Moronike, Eagle Squad, Lious Edet House - Abuja, Officer- in- Charge (OC) Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS), Osun State Civil Societies Coalition Against Corruption And Rights Violation (OSCARV), Osun State Police Command under Mr. John Moronike, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), TheNEWS magazine
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Jan 3rd, 2009 |
By Moremi |
Category: NEWS
TWO weeks after a six-man armed robbery gang raided three banks in Ile-Ife, in which over 24 victims were shot dead, while nothing less than 54 persons sustained gunshot injuries, police authority in Osun state has arrested another two suspects, who were allegedly involved in the bank robbery. The police had earlier paraded three armed [...]
Tags: 2008, a native doctor, a policeman, A public school teacher, Aiyedun Grammar school, December 15, gunshot injuries, Ife bank robberies, Ife- South Local Government Council Area, Ile- Ife vigilante groups, Julius Adewuyi, Labata town, Mr Joshua Olayemi, Mr. Babatunde Babalola, Oke-Fia, Osogbo, Police Public Relations Officer, six-man armed robbery gang, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), State Police Headquarters, stray bullets, Taofeeq Mustapha
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Jan 3rd, 2009 |
By Moremi |
Category: Letter To The Editor
KINDLY permit me a space to air my views on happenings in Osun State concerning the activities of men of the police force but first let me commend your team’s effort at ensuring that the people are well informed. These days, I wonder whether there is still a commissioner of police in the state. Last [...]
Tags: at AtaOja Police Station, Commissioner of Police, Eagle Squad, Eagle Squad in the state invaded Gbongan, notorious bandits instead of a disciplined elite corp, Osun State, police as lawbreaking agents rather than law enforcement agents, police in Ede, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), the mother of a new-born baby, the police in Osogbo
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Dec 26th, 2008 |
By admin |
Category: FEATURE
HOME TRUTH WITH GOKE BUTIKA NIGERIA is a great country, a nation of nations, a state of anything goes. We are rugged and blessed with thick skin for suffering. This is a country where oddities have become part of our daily schedule. No wonder, the president of Credit Card International was quoted to have philosophically [...]
Tags: Ademola Ajiboye - Ila, Akintunde Adegboye - Osogbo, America, Biodun Awolola - Egbedore, corruption-ridden Constituency Development Funds (CDF), Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), ex-Governor Joshua Dariye and DSP Alemiesiegha, fable about thieve-catching machine, Ghana and Nigeria, Ipoola Binuyo representing Ife North, Kamil Oyedele - Irepodun/Orolu State Constituency collected N20 million, Laide Ajibola, Laide Ajibola - Olorunda, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Najim Salam - Ejigbo, Nobel Laureate - Emeritus Professor Wole Soyinka, PDP Board of Trustees (BOT) former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP’s) lawmakers, president of Credit Card International, Razak Salinsile - Iwo, Samson Fafiyebi (Obokun), Senator Nuhu Aliyu, Speaker - Adejare Bello, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), State Constituencies collected N10 million each, “PDP is a nest of killers and vipers.”
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Nov 18th, 2008 |
By admin |
Category: Front Page Story
We have been reliably informed of alleged plans by Governor Olagunsoye Oyinlola to use some operatives of a particular security agency (name withheld) to hire false witnesses to testify against and implicate leaders of the Action Congress (AC) in Osun State over the June 14, 2007 explosion at the State Secretariat, Abere. Under this plan, [...]
Tags: bomb blast saga, hire false witnesses, June 14 2007 explosion at the State Secretariat Abere, President Umar Musa Yar’adua, Richard Abayomi Adesanmi, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)
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Nov 6th, 2008 |
By admin |
Category: NEWS
Falcon and falconet appear to be operating from different wavelengths at the Osun State Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), as some operatives reportedly planted by the erstwhile Officer-In-Charge (OC), Mr Agbanajelu Jude were hell-bent in destroying the current OC, Akinlolu Okunola. OSUN DEFENDER gathered that the aggrieved boys, as members of squad are popularly addressed by [...]
Tags: Akinlolu Okunola, embattled Commissioner of Police - (CP) Mr. John Moroni, Mr Agbanajelu Jude, Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS)
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