Reward for information on OPC chief

The police on Wednesday offered a reward of 100,000 naira (US $1000) to anyone who could give information leading to the arrest of the leader of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), news organisations reported. Lagos State Police Command declared in a statement that Ganiyu Adams was wanted “for the offences of murder, arson, acid bath on police officers etc.,” ‘The Guardian’ reported. The OPC was founded by Frederick Fasehun to address alleged political marginalisation of the Yoruba following the annulment of the 1993 presidential elections which Chief Moshood Abiola, a Yoruba, was believed to have won. Adams heads a militant wing of the organisation, which has broken up into factions. Police Commissioner Mike Okiro said that Adams was wanted for questioning in connection with a violent clash recently between members of OPC factions in Mushin, Lagos mainland, ‘The Guardian’ reported. Meanwhile intensive police searches have also been taking place for the murderers of a police superintendent who was reportedly abducted and killed on Monday by OPC members.