The traditional ruler of Abogunde town, in Surulere local government area of Ogbomoso, Oyo state, Oba Tajudeen Abimbola Aminu has called on Governor Abiola Ajimobi to intervene in an alleged attempt by some political heavy-weights to truncate justice in a case of violence and blood-letting, leading to the murder of a villager, Umaru Musa.

The monarch in a letter written to the governor, copied the Attorney General and Justice Commissioner, as well as the Commissioner of Police, dated April 25, 2014,and made available to newsmen in Ibadan on Sunday, Oba Aminu, through his counsel Biodun Abdul-Raheem, said that seven accused persons on December 19, 2013 allegedly beat to death a Fulani man, Umaru Musa, and matcheted several other residents,including a friend of the deceased, Saidu Aliyu.

Umar, who was allegedly hit on his abdominal region with stick blows, died at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, according to the doctor's report, "due to massive intra abdominal haemorrhage resulting into shock".

The police arrested the following suspects: Sunday Oladipo (55), Kunle Rasaq (64), Sulaiman Akanbi (47), Michael Oyeleye (50), Toyin Ajiboye (35), James Oyelami (65), and Sunday Oyeleye (42), charged them with conspiracy, murder, attempted murder and malicious damage before Magistrate E.A. Idowu of the Iyaganku Chief Magistrate Court 5, Ibadan.

Their plea on the 10-count charge marked MIS/214c/2014, having been denied on February 24, 2014, in agreement with the charge of the prosecutor, Adegbite Olalekan, the accused persons were ordered remanded in the Agodi Prison.

In the letter, Biodun Abdul-Raheem, on behalf of the monarch, written to Governor Abiola Ajimobi, entitled: "Unwholesome violence and blood-letting leading to the death of one Umaru Musa and gun-shot cum matchet cut injuries sustained by the people of Abogunde town in Surulere Local Government Area of the State on 19th

December, 2013, and frantic attempts to truncate justice by heavy-weight politicians, called for urgent need to prevent perversion of justice and breach of the peace".

The complainants who hailed the governor for the unprecedented peace being witnessed in the state since his assumption of office in 2011, and his un-equalled disposition for protection of lives and properties, urged him to conduct a discreet investigation into the allegation, "with a view to do the needful in the circumstance".

The letter called the attention of the governor to the fact that "apart from the monumental physical and material damages inflicted on our clients and their properties, the rampaging hoodlums caused the death of Musa Umar, a Fulani by tribe.

He came on a visit to his friend (Saidu Aliyu), whose children were receiving medical attention at the community clinic.

According to the monarch, "some powerful politicians are making frantic moves to prevail on the relevant government organs to drop the charge of murder of Late Umaru Musa from the charges against the hoodlums so as to pave way for their being grantedbail in the first instance, and eventually insulating them from prosecution".