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Police Detain Osun SSG Teslim Igbalaye, Five Others After Raid
['Muhammad A. Aliyu', 'Senior Editor']
Okay.ng
OSOGBO, Osun State, Nigeria —The Osun State Police Command has arrested and detained the Secretary to the State Government, Teslim Igbalaye, and five other men following a raid on his residence in Osogbo, the state capital.
Abiodun Ojelabi, spokesperson for the Osun State Police Command, confirmed the arrests in a statement, saying officers entered the property while acting on intelligence that suspected members of a criminal group were hiding there.
Igbalaye was identified in the police statement as 47, while Abiodun was listed as 38.
The command said officers recovered ₦4,810,500, two Permanent Voter Cards, a voter register covering Wards 1 to 15, a Dynabook laptop, a photocopier and a printer from the residence.
The Osun State Government separately challenged the circumstances of the raid, accusing the police of entering Igbalaye’s residence without a search warrant.