Real Reasons Police Arrested NURTW Bigshot, Akanni Olohunwa

FUNSHO AROGUNDADE

Socialite and former chairman of Lagos State council of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Rafiu Akanni Olohunwa is in the police net.

The NURTW honcho was arrested by the operatives of the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) after a suspected assassin, Adeola Williams, 39, with an alias Ade Lawyer was nabbed and named Olohunwa as his suspected accomplice.

Ade Lawyer, nabbed on Wednesday in Akure, Ondo State, is said to be responsible for the death of a NURTW member, Ganiyu Ayinla (a.k.a Piero) on Lagos Island on January 23.

He was said to have also confessed to the killing of Rasaq Bello a.k.a. Hamburger, a union leader in Oshodi.

The police said Ade Lawyer had been on the wanted list for over five years following his involvement in killings in the Southwest.

Olorunwa was alleged to have contracted Ade Lawyer to kill NURTW Lagos Island Chairman Azeez Lawal (a.k.a. Kunle Poly).

Ade Lawyer, the police alleged, confessed that he was paid N500,000 with a promise of N1,000,0000 balance to execute the job.

However, he allegedly missed the target and killed Kunle Poly’s personal assistant, Ayinla.

Police said Lawal escaped death but sustained bullet wounds.

Upon his arrest, Ade Lawyer was alleged to have confessed to the killing and that of others in the zone.

“He said Olohunwa refused to give them the N1,000,000 balance because they killed the personal assistant, instead of the man he sent them to eliminate.

“Hence, Adeola Williams a.k.a. Ade Lawyer traced the driver of Olohunwa and seized his black Hyundai Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) from the driver. He called the owner that they would release his SUV after he paid them their N1 million balance.

“He said they needed to hide until tension subsided since two of his accomplices had been arrested by the police.

“He confessed that Olohunwa has been calling him to be very careful and that he should hide because his members have been arrested.

“He listed other victims he killed in the past to include Rasaq Bello a.k.a Hamburger, a union chairman in Oshodi, Babajide Dosumu aka Mados in Ebute Meta, Salawe in Ajah, Ganiyu Asaro and others in Badore where he said he sprayed bullets in their car and killed the five occupants.

“Olohunwa was arrested in Ebute Meta by IRT operatives.

Police said efforts to arrest the remaining gang members of Ade Lawyer are on.