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Mystery murder,
kidnaps-for-ransom
come rock FMC to FMC Owo Owo
Dayo Johnson, Akure
(JUHWN), armed with abductors said to be Hausa
placards, took to the streets where the management of
to protest the abduction. the hospital went to convey
ALL is definitely not
The inscriptious on some him back to Owo.
well with the Federal
of the placards read: ‘Say no The incumbent CMD, Dr
Medical Center,
to kidnapping’, ‘ Save Ahmed Adeagbo, in an
FMC, Owo, Ondo State.
health workers’, ‘ Bring back interview, allayed the fear
The tertiary health care
our staff’.
that the kidnappings had
center, established 23 years
The latest kidnapping of anything to do with the
ago, has witnessed one
the Acting Chief Accountant hospital.
crisis after another in the
of the FMC, Kayode Asaju, Adeagbo said the
last two years, no thanks to
heightened tension in the pharmacist was kidnapped
the politicking in the choice
hospital.
while returning from a vigil
of its Chief Medical
Asaju was said to have led to her house in Owo while
Director, CMD.
three other officials of the the Acting Chief Accountant
And certain events in the
hospital to Abuja on official was abducted on his way to
facility have been giving the
engagement.
Abuja.
workers their worst
•Oguntuase...killed in •Adeyeye...family paid
Report had it that on
According to him, one
nightmares.
mysterious fire
ransom to kidnappers
getting to the Lokoja/ Abuja person had been arrested in
Some of the events have
road, penultimate Sunday, respect of the abduction of
been linked to powerful
the driver noticed that many Adeyeye while the Acting
forces within the hospital. disrupting the smooth foul, alleging that
of the vehicles ahead were
The forces dictate events in running of the hospital. Oguntuase was assassinated
Chief Accountant was
suddenly making u-turn. allegedly kidnapped by
the health care institution. The ARD President , Dr before his clinic was torched
He reportedly stopped the some Hausa-speaking
In fact, they decide the fate Isaiah Oke, alleged then by his assailants.
vehicle.
of any CMD deployed to the that the interim
The deceased has since
hoodlums.
Following the serious Adeagbo said security
FMC.
administrator was
been immortalized by the
shooting, the officials were agents were working to
Findings by Sunday victimizing his members and state chapter of the NMA
said to have alighted from
Vanguard showed that denying them entitlements. which named its building
unravel the two incidences
the vehicle and ran into the of kidnap in the hospital.
some three years ago, the Omotosho, who fingered after him.
bush.
Meanwhile, the question
EFCC stormed the hospital members of the association While the death was still
But the kidnappers,
following a petition by some as his accusers, allegedly fresh, another doctor,
on the lips of the FMC
Sunday Vanguard was told, workers is, who is the next
workers alleging
turned the heat on them, Muyiwa Alonge, was to cry
went straight for their victim victim?
embezzlement of funds by hence the alarm raised by that some people were after
and left the others to keep
the then CMD, Dr Abiodun Oke.
his life.
running into the bush.
Olufemi Omotosho.
The cat and mouse
Alonge alleged that
How the kidnappers were
Consequently, Omotoso relationship dragged until gunmen invaded his
able to identify their victim
was picked alongside four the Federal Ministry of residence located at Aule,
remains cloudy.
others and arraigned before Health replaced the CMD Akure on Christmas day.
The FMC Acting Chief
Justice M I Sani at the with Dr Adediran Kolajo. Then a pharmacist with
Accountant was thereafter
Federal High Court sitting The same ARD protested the FMC, Mrs Queen
whisked away and, within
in Akure on an eight-count against Kolajo, accusing him Adeyeye, was kidnapped by
24 hours, the abductors
charge.
of being tyrannical in the five gunmen who ambushed
opened negotiation with the
The said petition
administration of the FMC. her while she and members
wife who works in the same
chronicled how the former Then hired killers
of her household were
hospital.
CMD allegedly
reportedly stormed the returning from a vigil.
Many see this as not a
misappropriated funds private clinic of one of the Adeyeye was said to have
coincidence but a planned
meant for the training of hospital’s doctors, David been abducted in front of
work from “ inside”.
staff amongst other
Oguntuase, located in her house located at Ishelu
Asaju has since been
allegations.
Akure, Ondo State capital, quarters in Owo. She spent
rescued after N2m was
As if that was not enough, and allegedly murdered him five days in the kidnappers
allegedly coughed out. The
the Association of Resident before setting his clinic den before she was released
kidnappers were said to
Doctors (ARD) at the FMC ablaze.
after allegedly coughing out
have requested for N6m
protested against his
But his colleagues in Ondo some millions as ransom.
ransom but the sum was
continued stay as the head State chapter of the
Workers, under the aegis
negotiated downwards. He,
of the institution. All this Nigerian Medical
of Joint Union of Health
it was learnt, was dropped •Adeagbo...don’t link
went on for months thereby Association (NMA) cried Workers of Nigeria
around Lokoja by his incidents to FMC
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