The Ondo State Youth Community, OSYN, has lashed out on the Lawyer Basic and Commissioner for Justice of the state, Kayode Ajulo, over the alleged incarceration of youths from the Akoko axis of the state, amongst whom is the previous Scholar Union Authorities, SUG, President of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, James Akeju.
In keeping with the group, the youths, who’re three in quantity, have been remanded in jail custody by a courtroom sitting in Akure, the state capital, on Tuesday, following alleged political victimisation on the a part of Ajulo.
Whereas describing the motion as a gross abuse of energy and a deliberate transfer to intimidate and silence the voices of youths within the state, OSYN urged Governor Fortunate Aiyedatiwa to name his aide to order and intervene within the scenario.
The group, in an announcement issued and signed by its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Christopher Olusa, alleged that the affected youths—Adediran Gabriel, Yaya Bisola, and Akeju Blessing James—have been unjustly focused after a confrontation with the Lawyer Basic on March 28, 2025.
OSYN emphasised that the trio, who’re executives of the Akoko Youth Discussion board, had visited Ajulo in his workplace however have been allegedly met with verbal assaults and demeaning utterances, after which the Lawyer Basic allegedly used safety businesses, together with the Division of State Companies and the police, to harass and detain them with none authorized foundation.
With the intervention of involved and eminent residents of the state, significantly elders from the Akoko area, the matter was initially resolved. However to the shock of many, the difficulty took a brand new twist when the youths have been served courtroom summonses containing what the group described as “baseless and faulty” expenses.
“Throughout Tuesday’s courtroom sitting at a Chief Justice of the Peace’s Court docket in Akure, all 4 expenses have been struck out for lack of jurisdiction, and the applying for his or her remand was declared incompetent. However in a stunning flip, the presiding Justice of the Peace ordered their remand pending ruling on April 16.
The youth physique described the event as a ‘harmful descent into tyranny,’ stressing that the remand order, regardless of the authorized flaws, recommended political interference and an try and silence critics utilizing the courts. ‘This isn’t justice. That is persecution. These younger individuals did nothing mistaken. They merely stood up towards intimidation and are actually being punished for it.’”
The group additionally raised considerations over rising insecurity within the state, warning that such actions by public officers might irritate an already fragile scenario.
“The identical state battling herdsmen assaults and rampant kidnappings is now spending its power locking up harmless youths. If the federal government can not settle for dissenting opinions, then it has failed the younger individuals who kind the spine of its growth.”
In the meantime, the Technical Adviser to the Commissioner for Justice, Yomi Saint, in a response, described the motion of the youths as uncultured and immature.
“The faction of the ‘Akoko Youth Discussion board’ that staged such immature, disgraceful, uncultured, and condemnable conduct on the workplace of the Lawyer Basic and Commissioner for Justice, Dr. Kayode Ajulo, ought to, as a matter of urgency and cheap reasoning, tender a public apology and search forgiveness.”
