Accord National, State Lawmakers Demand Redeployment of Osun CP

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The Osun National Assembly members and members of the State House of Assembly has demanded the redeployment of the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Gotan.

Speaking on behalf of the 7 National Assembly and 25 State Assembly members at a press conference on Friday in Osogbo, the Speaker of the House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Adewale Egbedun noted that the Police in Osun state appears a willing accomplice in the execution of the unlawful plans by the Osun APC which have begun to unfold.

He said, “The Police in Osun state appears a willing accomplice in the execution of the unlawful plans which have begun to unfold.
We find it difficult to understand how crimes committed in broad daylight, in branded vehicles, caught on tapes would not be tracked and perpetrators arrested 72 hours after those shootings.

“The apparent inability to identify, apprehend, and prosecute perpetrators has emboldened criminal elements and increased public concerns regarding the safety of lives and property in Osun State.

“We wish to put it on record that since his assumption of office on the 11th of May, 2025, the state Commissioner of Police has not deemed it fit to attend the state Security Council meeting more than twice! On all other occasions, he either sent some retired personnel or persons junior to other service commanders to represent him.

“The orchestrated attempt of the CP to incapacitate the Amotekun Corps is another clear danger to the security of our people in Osun State, especially now that cases of kidnapping and banditry are on the rise in different parts of the country.

“While hundreds of Accord party campaign billboards were vandalised by known miscreants without a single arrest, the Commissioner of Police was busy trying to stop the holding of campaign by our party men in parts of the State.

“The Police Commissioner, from all indications, has become an accomplice to the plans to turn our state upside down and hand our democratic institutions to hijackers and state captors. This is clearly unexpected, unacceptable, and very unfortunate.”

He thereafter urged the Inspector General of Police, Olatunji Disu, to redeploy CP Gotan from Osun stating that he has shown himself partisan.

“On the account of the foregoing, we hereby call on the Inspector General of Police, Mr Olatunji Disu to immediately redeploy the Osun State Commissioner of Police, Mr Ibrahim Gotan who has shown himself partisan, highly compromised and incapable of providing effective security support for the people of Osun State”, he added.

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