Police Interrogate Fatai Yusuff’s Escorts, Staff,

By Bimbo Ogunnaike

The Oyo State Police Command, on Friday, said that two Police escorts attached to a popular Yoruba herbal manufacturer, Fatai Yusuff, popularly called Oko Oloyun, killed by some unknown gunmen on Thursday, are being questioned at the homicide section of State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID Iyaganku, Ibadan.

The Command in a statement signed by its Public Relations Officer, Olugbenga Fadeyi, also revealed that some staff of the deceased, apart from the 2-man armed escorts of Policemen, were being questioned by a team of crack detectives from the homicide section of State Criminal Investigation Department.

It would be recalled that Yusuff, a native of Otu, a town in Oyo state, was on Thursday Killed by unknown gunmen.

Yusuff, who is also known as Oko Oloyun, was shot while on his way from Abeokuta in Ogun state to Iseyin in Oyo state.

Fadeyi in the statement made available to newsmen, said that the Commissioner of Police, Shina Olukolu “seizes the opportunity to appeal to any member of the public with credible information not to hesitate in passing same to the Oyo State Police Command to assist in the detection of the crime and apprehension of the offenders.”

He maintained that the two escorts and the staff were being questioned with a view to finding and apprehending the fleeing suspects who committed the wicked act.