The embattled Chairman of the disbanded Park Management System in Oyo State, Mukaila Lamidi, popularly known as Auxillary, on Saturday, told the state Police Command that it was wrong to declare him wanted.
The had reported that the Police said it raided Auxiliary’s hideout in Ibadan, the state capital, on Tuesday morning and found guns and other dangerous weapons that were recovered while 78 suspected hoodlums were also arrested, on Friday.
Following this raid, the Police Command declared him wanted for alleged gun-running, armed robbery, kidnapping, among other criminal offences.
Meanwhile, Auxiliary has said that he is committed to the peace of the state, stressing that he would abide by the decisions taken by the governor on transport unions.
Reacting to the allegations of violence allegedly perpetrated by his boys, a few days ago in Ibadan, the ex-chairman who called in during a live radio programme on Fresh FM insisted that he is a peace-lover, who could not have turned the state into a theatre of war over the dissolution of the PMS by the governor.
Speaking in the Yoruba dialect, Auxillary stated that the police can not declare him wanted as he was never involved in any violent activities in the state.
He said, ”I agree with Governor Makinde’s order on the issue, but the police can not declare me wanted as I did not partake in any violent activity in the state.”
On the allegation of stockpiling weapons in his home, the former PMS chairman denied the allegation, stressing that only a fool would do such.
Auxillary remarked, “How could I have hidden or stockpiled those weapons at my residence? I’m not a fool.”
However, he warned his boys not to foment trouble or engage in any act of violence in Ibadan and other parts of the state, cautioning that, “No individual, no matter how highly influential is bigger than government.”
Auxiliary, while promising to comply and cooperate with the reform and integration process of other driver unions into the PMS, pointed out that, “If the new reform doesn’t favour me, I will accept the outcome.”
