Man cries out over brother’s safety
53-year-old Dele Onabanjo has decried the injustice meted against his brother.
“I am fed up with the situation around me. The life of my younger brother who caters for me is in danger,” he said, as tears rolled down freely from his eyes.
Mr Onabanjo who has been sick and bedridden for over a year, raised the alarm at his Jinadu-Alogi residence in Obantoko, Abeokuta, Ogun state, as he said, cultists were after his younger brother, Olalekan Onabanjo and his family.
He made this known yesterday during a chat with Journalists at the Iwe Irohin, Okelewo Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Ogun State branch.
Relating his ordeal in the last eight months, as he refused to be consoled, Mr Dele Onabanjo explained, “I have neither seen nor known where my brother, my breadwinner is, for over eight months and the situation is taking its toll on my health because there is nobody to help me since his departure from his house.”
Dele who has been sick for over thirteen years was brought to the NUJ Secretariat in a wheelchair by one of his neighbours.
“I have reported the case at a Police station,” he said, noting that he believed that since he had reported the case with security operatives, justice would come the way of his brother, who, according to him had been living a life full of uncertainties.
Dele explained that members of a cult group, the Aiye confraternity had visited his brother’s house in America Junction area in Obantoko, Abeokuta more than five times since September last year, accusing him of aiding the escape of the leader of a rival cult group, the Eiye confraternity, “Biggy” who attacked and killed some of their members, late last year in Sagamu town of Ogun State.
He said he was particularly disturbed by the way the cultists threw decorum into the wind each time they came, searching for his brother and his family, describing the whole development as frightening and embarrassing .
“I learnt on good authority that the cultists were at my brother’s apartment again last week, with one of them shooting into the air sporadically, disturbing the serenity of the area and vowing he has to pay for his role in the escape of Biggy.
Mr Onabanjo added that before the last week’s visit to his brother’s residence he had also noticed the movements of some strange faces in his own area in Alogi noting, “I am scared as they may want to attack me, to atone the spurious and unfounded allegations they levelled against my brother, who is an easy going commercial vehicle driver of many years, plying Abeokuta and Sagamu.”
