The market leader, who spoke on the phone from
police detention at about 8.30 pm, claimed that
she was arrested and detained on the orders of
Governor Ayo Fayose.
Mrs. Oso said the governor ordered her arrest
insisting she must produce over N93 million
purportedly raked in from the shops allocated to
market women by the Kayode Fayemi
administration.
According to her, she never collected any money
from the Fayemi administration on the land and
the shops allocated wondering where the Fayose
government ‘manufactured’ the N93 million
figure from.
She said that she was picked up at her residence
in Ekute area of Ado-Ekiti after some policemen
had laid siege to her house.
She explained that the policemen told her that
the governor had ordered her arrest to produce
the the said N93 million.
Oso said she knew nothing about the N93 million
claim by the government and she never
embezzled any money
She recalled that Fayose arrested and detained
her twice during his first term in power and the
bus donated to the market women was forcibly
taken away from her on the street.
Oso said she had never heard of anywhere in
Yoruba land or any part of Nigeria where the
leader of market women had been so humiliated.
She said she had contacted her lawyer, Otunba
Bisi Egbeyemi on the development.
Mrs Oso said: “It was Fayemi that approached
Oodua Investment to give us the land at Textile
area to open up a the place as an alternative
market when he (Fayemi) said he wanted to
demolish the main market but the market women
advised him against such and he agreed.
“Fayemi helped us to facilitate the arrangement
with Oodua Group and promised to give all the
documents to me (Iyaloja) and work was going on
before the governorship election which he lost.
“Oodua agreed with us and we pay N3,000 per
shop every year but Fayose government now
came and asked us to be paying N10,000 per
square metre.
“Following the fire that gutted the main market
(Oja Oba), Fayose promised to demolish it and
build a new one and order that he move to the
Awedele (Textile) Market.
“We contributed money, we were working on the
place to clear the bus and pave the way to the
shops in the market when agents of government
came and ordered us to stop work that we should
come and obtain form.
“We were all shocked that what forms are we
going to obtain again on a land Fayemi gave to us
free of charge? I want you to remember that he
(Fayose) arrested and detained me two times
during his last administration and the bus
donated to our association by Governor Adebayo
was forcible taken away from me on the streets.
“It is very shocking that I am being humiliated
like this because I have never heard of any part of
Yoruba land where an Iyaloja is given this unfair
treatment.”
But the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor,
Idowu Adelusi, said Fayose had nothing to do with
Mrs. Oso’s arrest
Adelusi said: “The issue had nothing to do with
the governor, it was the police that arrested her
over allegation that borders on fraud and it is the
CP that should be called to respond to her
allegation. This has nothing to do with the
governor at all, it was the police that arrested
her.”
Efforts to speak with the Police Public Relations
Officer, Alberto Adeyemi, were unsuccessful at
press time, as he did not answer calls put across
to him.

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