Suspected hoodlums invaded the premises of the Ondo State Oil Development Area Development Commission (OSOPADEC) disrupted the bursary and scholarship award ceremony of the intervention agency.
As reported by SUNSHINETRUTH, the hoodlums whose numbers could not be ascertained prevented the event for several hours as both staff and students scampered for safety as a result of gunshots from the suspected hoodlums.
A source who was in the premises said the hoodlums came in hired vehicles and started to shoot into the premises, thereby preventing the event from holding at a scheduled time.
The source said the beneficiaries of the bursary and scholarship award were seated when the hoodlums came and shot sporadically into the venue and led to pandemonium in the area.
The security officers attached to the OSOPADEC office had hectic time curtailing the activities of the suspected hoodlums and had to close the gate leading to the office to prevent those who wanted to entry to and fro from the office.
A commissioner at OSOPADEC, Kehinde Akinrotoye, popularly known as ‘BonsueAketi’, was beaten to a pulp by the beneficiaries alleging him of sponsoring the suspected hoodlums.
The vehicle that brought him into the venue was destroyed and vandalized, who also destroyed another vehicle in the premises of the intervention agency.
It took the intervention of men of the Ondo State Police Command to bring the situations calm and under the control.
As at the time of filling this report, the security men were strategically positioned to prevent the breakdown of law and order, while the Commissioner has been hospitalised.
Another source said the Commissioner was attacked, not because he is from Ondo West Local Govt area, but for allegedly bringing in thugs to the commission to distrupt the ceremony.
