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Alex Adebayo
Jegede, an aide to the Chairman of Ikole Local Government in Ekiti
State, is now in police custody for allegedly looting the property of
the council in the wake of last week’s change of government in the
state.

The Director
General of the Broadcasting Service of Ekiti State (BSES), Segun
Aderiye, was also on Tuesday harassed by staff of the corporation who
forcefully retrieved his official car from him.

Mr Jegede was
arrested by the police on Monday in line with the order of the state
governor, Kayode Fayemi, that political appointees holding government
property must surrender them with immediate effect. The order became
necessary after reports that some officials of the sacked government
and those in the local councils are helping themselves with funds and
property, following the sack of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
government led by Segun Oni.

The council
official was arrested at Odo-Ayedun during a community meeting held at
the palace and he is currently in detention at the Police Divisional
Headquarters in Ikole town. Some of the council property recovered from
Mr Jegede include: rugs, window blinds, six cartons of plates, among
other items.

The council
chairman, Wole Ayeni, who was contacted via phone, claimed to be in
Abuja at the time the alleged offence was committed.

The BSES staff on
Tuesday stripped Mr Aderiye of his official car to enforce the order of
the new government, and walked him out of the corporation’s premises.

Forced to leave

The staff, most of
whom had been posted to various ministries and departments following
the problem with the station’s broadcast equipment, returned to the
corporation following the change of government in the state at the
weekend.

Mr Aderiye’s
appearance at the corporation’s premises at about noon enraged the
staff, who queried his presence at the office after the sack of the Oni
government.

The enraged staff
said Mr Aderiye must release his official car, a grey Toyota Corolla
car marked EK 11 A-42, and prevented him from leaving the premises with
the car.

The BSES workers,
who were shouting at the top of their voices, called Mr Aderiye
unprintable names and accused him of running the corporation aground
through alleged intimidation and maladministration. The new state
government has not made any pronouncement on the fate of technocrats
appointed by the last administration to run some of the parastatals.

Mr Aderiye did not answer calls placed to his mobile phone for his reaction to the incident.