Osun SSG arrested for vote buying, police recover N4.8m

Osun State SSG Teslim Igbalaye don chop arrest o. Police pick am and five others for Oroki Estate area of Osogbo for alleged vote buying. According to police spokesperson DSP Abiodun Ojelabi, they recovered N4,810,500 cash, one Dynabook laptop, photocopy machine, printer, two PVCs, and voter register covering Ward 1 to 15.

The police say they were actually searching for one Abiodun Arowomole aka Ashipa, who is on their watch list for serious crimes including murder. But when they reach the house, they found Igbalaye and the others with all this election materials and cash. CP Ibrahim Gotan talk say no one is above the law, regardless of social status or political affiliation.

So una see how democracy dey work for this country? We dey cry about election rigging but the people wey supposed to be protecting the process are the ones caught with voter registers and cash. The question na, how many of these arrests go lead to actual prosecution? Or this one go suffer the usual Nigerian fate where big men always wriggle out?