A Serving Magistrate in Osun State, Mr. Olagoke Akintayo has been arrested and detained on the order of the State Commissioner of Police, Mr John Moronike for allegedly beating the police orderly attached to him to coma. He is currently being held at the state police CID for assaulting the police orderly, Dada Oluwafemi.
An assistant Commissioner of Police in the state was said to have carried out his arrest ordered by the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. John Moronike.
According to sources close to the police command, Akintayo came home about 5'Oclock and believed to have been heavily drunk, ordered the orderly to go and open the gate of his house for him while the latter was said to have refused, telling him frankly that he was not a gateman.
It was further learnt that efforts by the magistrate to make the police orderly change his position did not yield any positive result, as he stuck to his gun not to perform the function of a gateman.
It was at this point that Mr Akintayo became furious and considered the action of the police officer as an affront for daring to refuse his order.
Still boiling with anger, Akintayo was said to have vent his anger on his wife who attempted to stop him from further pummeling the police orderly.
Speaking on his hospital bed, the victim told newsmen yesterday that he was beaten to a pulp and had to take to his heel when it became apparent that he may lose his life.
"When he ordered me to open the gate for him I told him that he should secure the services of a gateman if he needed any as my duty is to provide maximum security for him and not to serve the purpose of a gateman" he said.
The state police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Clement Akinnola confirmed the incident and the arrest of the magistrate saying the case was purely a case of assault.
He added that the police would not leave any stone unturned to unravel the circumstances that led to the unholy incident, saying that the magistrate erred for taking law into his hand.
Investigation further revealed that some colleagues of Mr. Akintayo made frantic efforts yesterday to effect his release from the police detention while it was gathered that the police officers where he was being detained insisted that the police commissioner alone could give the instruction on his release.
Meanwhile another bloody clash erupted yesterday in osogbo between some commercial motorcylists and policemen attached to Dada estate Police Station following the killing of an Okada rider by the policemen.
It was gathered that some policemen on patrol stopped an Okada rider who refused to stop for fear of extortion.
In pursuit of the okada rider, it was gathered that the rider lost control and crashed leading to his instant death. His death further infuriated fellow riders who stromed the police station and vandalised the patrol jeep attached to the police station.