The gruesome murder of Alhaji Fatai Yusuf a.k.a. Oko Oloyun, the popular Lagos based traditional therapist on Thursday, 24th of January 2020, along Igbo Ora-Eruwa road in Oyo State,is not just a shocking news,it calls for worry.
By the circumstance of his death, this seems to be more than armed robbery incident. It may also not be wrong, if one looks at the dastardly act as direct indictment that the government at various levels lack the will and capacity to provide adequate security.
What this simply means is that government have not succeeded in the performance of its core mandate of providing security of lives and property for the citizens.
This is to also serve as a further reminder that government needs to improve in the area of security architecture,intelligence gathering and digitalization of security operations throughout the country.
For those of us that ply Maya-Eruwa-Igboora road weekly, we know the area is unsafe and more or less a den of people of underworld.
The brutal assassination of this silent philanthropist is a further testimony that insecurity of lives and property is now a major challenge in the country.
I am privileged to come across Oko Oloyun in the course of traveling around and meeting like minds to advance frontier of knowledge in the area of phytochemistry and uses of medicinal plants.Without any reservation,I can say that Oko Oloyun is a genius and guru when it comes to knowledge of nature cure and herbal medicine.
His death will definitely create a vacuum in the field of alternative medicine.
I pray this time around,the killers and their sponsors are fixed out.
The whole world is waiting eagerly to see how far the police will go in its investigation of the heinous crime committed by unknown gunmen.
The Oyo State police command spokesman, SP Gbenga Fadeyi, said that the state’s police commissioner, Shina Olukolu, has ordered an immediate investigation into the incident.It is my prayer that his assassination doesn’t end as one of other unresolved murder cases in the country.
Oko-Oloyun, who until his death was the President of the Physiotherapists’ Association of Nigeria, was also the manufacturer of popular Fijk Flusher among other popular herbal products.
Those close to him say he was a lovable personality and cheer giver who never discriminated against any tribe or faith before his gruesome murder by yet to be identified gunmen.
May God Almighty repose his soul and give his family the fortitude to bear the irreparable loss.
